What's the best material you've ever written?
- 6 years ago
Moby cites a piece he calls "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" as his very best.
Question: What's the best material you've ever written?
Moby: Well there's a piece of music that I wrote about 12 years ago called "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters". And it's a quiet, classical piece. And then it was used in the movie Heat -- the sort of ... -- the very end of the movie. And I'd say out of all the pieces of music I've made, that's still the one that's closest to my heart. So ...Question: Why?Moby: Mmm ... It has a ... I don't know. There's just something about it that seems ... Like it's very ... It's very emotional, at least for me. And it's quite powerful, but it's also very delicate. And it's one of those pieces of music where, when I'd finished writing it, I had no idea where it came from. Like I don't know where the inspiration came from. You know, I mean I know it's a tried cliché, but I really just felt sort of like a conduit. Like I wasn't actually the one writing the music. You know, I was just the weird puppet/conduit through which the music came.Question: Has that happened since?Moby: Yeah. Luckily ... Well, I mean, my criteria for evaluating my music is a lot different than the criteria that other people would use to evaluate my music. And from my perspective, I've had a lot of instances where I've, you know, ended up making music that's affected me very ... on a deep emotional level. That doesn't mean that it always affects other people emotionally.
Recorded on: 5/29/07
Question: What's the best material you've ever written?
Moby: Well there's a piece of music that I wrote about 12 years ago called "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters". And it's a quiet, classical piece. And then it was used in the movie Heat -- the sort of ... -- the very end of the movie. And I'd say out of all the pieces of music I've made, that's still the one that's closest to my heart. So ...Question: Why?Moby: Mmm ... It has a ... I don't know. There's just something about it that seems ... Like it's very ... It's very emotional, at least for me. And it's quite powerful, but it's also very delicate. And it's one of those pieces of music where, when I'd finished writing it, I had no idea where it came from. Like I don't know where the inspiration came from. You know, I mean I know it's a tried cliché, but I really just felt sort of like a conduit. Like I wasn't actually the one writing the music. You know, I was just the weird puppet/conduit through which the music came.Question: Has that happened since?Moby: Yeah. Luckily ... Well, I mean, my criteria for evaluating my music is a lot different than the criteria that other people would use to evaluate my music. And from my perspective, I've had a lot of instances where I've, you know, ended up making music that's affected me very ... on a deep emotional level. That doesn't mean that it always affects other people emotionally.
Recorded on: 5/29/07
Question: What's the best material you've ever written?
Moby: Well there's a piece of music that I wrote about 12 years ago called "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters". And it's a quiet, classical piece. And then it was used in the movie Heat -- the sort of ... -- the very end of the movie. And I'd say out of all the pieces of music I've made, that's still the one that's closest to my heart. So ...Question: Why?Moby: Mmm ... It has a ... I don't know. There's just something about it that seems ... Like it's very ... It's very emotional, at least for me. And it's quite powerful, but it's also very delicate. And it's one of those pieces of music where, when I'd finished writing it, I had no idea where it came from. Like I don't know where the inspiration came from. You know, I mean I know it's a tried cliché, but I really just felt sort of like a conduit. Like I wasn't actually the one writing the music. You know, I was just the weird puppet/conduit through which the music came.Question: Has that happened since?Moby: Yeah. Luckily ... Well, I mean, my criteria for evaluating my music is a lot different than the criteria that other people would use to evaluate my music. And from my perspective, I've had a lot of instances where I've, you know, ended up making music that's affected me very ... on a deep emotional level. That doesn't mean that it always affects other people emotionally.
Recorded on: 5/29/07
Question: What's the best material you've ever written?
Moby: Well there's a piece of music that I wrote about 12 years ago called "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters". And it's a quiet, classical piece. And then it was used in the movie Heat -- the sort of ... -- the very end of the movie. And I'd say out of all the pieces of music I've made, that's still the one that's closest to my heart. So ...Question: Why?Moby: Mmm ... It has a ... I don't know. There's just something about it that seems ... Like it's very ... It's very emotional, at least for me. And it's quite powerful, but it's also very delicate. And it's one of those pieces of music where, when I'd finished writing it, I had no idea where it came from. Like I don't know where the inspiration came from. You know, I mean I know it's a tried cliché, but I really just felt sort of like a conduit. Like I wasn't actually the one writing the music. You know, I was just the weird puppet/conduit through which the music came.Question: Has that happened since?Moby: Yeah. Luckily ... Well, I mean, my criteria for evaluating my music is a lot different than the criteria that other people would use to evaluate my music. And from my perspective, I've had a lot of instances where I've, you know, ended up making music that's affected me very ... on a deep emotional level. That doesn't mean that it always affects other people emotionally.
Recorded on: 5/29/07