the other day i was in dean and deluca on prince street and broadway and i saw a woman pick up one of our teany bottled teas and read the label copy and decide to buy it and it made me very happy.
there’s something about making something in private and then releasing it into the world and seeing people respond positively to it that is profoundly exciting.
i still remember the first time that i heard one of my songs in the real world(i might’ve told this story before). i had been walking down canal street with my friends paul and laurel in 1991 and ‘voodoo child’ was playing out of someone’s car window.
my initial reaction was one of ‘wait, this can’t be right, i made this music in my bedroom, how can someone be listening to it in their car?’ and then i assumed that it was a fluke, that the driver had been trying to play something else and had maybe accidentally put in a cd with ‘voodoo child’ on it.
then paul and laurel were able to convince me that this guy might’ve actually been listening to ‘voodoo child’ intentionally, and possibly even enjoying it, which were 2 very novel concepts for me to entertain.
it still seems like such an odd concept, that with all of the stuff in the world that someone would choose to listen to(or drink)something that i created.
-moby
