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Moby Quotes

No one drives in Manhattan – in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don’t even have driving licenses!

– Moby

It’s heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

– Moby

What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything’s bombastic and in your face. It’s the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

– Moby

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It’s big and scary and they get lost.

– Moby

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

– Moby

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song’s hook.

– Moby

I don’t know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

– Moby

I think the word ‘blog’ is an ugly word. I just don’t know why people can’t use the word ‘journal.’

– Moby

A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

– Moby

I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families – I don’t believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

– Moby

When ‘Play’ first came out, journalists didn’t review it; it didn’t get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.

– Moby

I’ve worked with all sorts of random people – everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I’ve got a really strange CV. It’s interesting – I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it’s like to work with random people.

– Moby

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we’ve never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we’d always fall short.

– Moby

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself – we all kind of look the same.

– Moby

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a ‘teetotal Christian,’ which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

– Moby

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what’s out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

– Moby

Shaving your head is acceptable. It’s when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

– Moby

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

– Moby

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

– Moby

If someone is cynical and doesn’t vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

– Moby

Traffic terrifies me.

– Moby

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan’s ‘Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35’ is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

– Moby

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

– Moby

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

– Moby

‘Arbitrary’ and ‘odd’ are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I’m perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

– Moby

I love the fact that no one’s ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

– Moby

I’ve never seen ‘Friends;’ I’ve never seen ‘Seinfeld.’ I’ve heard people reference these things but I’ve never seen them.

– Moby

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that’s toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

– Moby

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

– Moby

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know – most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don’t really get much flack for it.

– Moby

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