Moby Quotes

For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.

A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.

I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person.

Should the progressives in Germany in the 30s have tolerated the National Socialists? Of course they shouldn't have.

God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good, I don't feel bad, I'm just on drugs...'

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point.

I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good, or I come up with something bad, I'm not too worried.

The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what's gonna happen.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.