Top 100 Moby Quotes

#1. No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

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#2. As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

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#3. The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

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#4. I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed.

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#5. For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.

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#6. 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.

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#7. When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

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

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#9. If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

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#10. I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

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#11. 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.

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#12. It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

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#13. You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

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#14. When I became a vegan in 1987, in one fell swoop I extended my life expectancy and annoyed most of the people in my life - my mom most of all.

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#15. When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

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#18. David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

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#19. When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

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#20. I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

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#21. I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

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#22. I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

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#23. I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

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#24. All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

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

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

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#27. These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it ... it's just dumb.

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#28. There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.

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#29. It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

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#30. I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.

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#31. We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.

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#32. In the past I've had public feuds with people, and I have really not benefited from any of them. The feud with Eminem did kind of torpedo my career in the United States, but it also introduced me to Middle America in a way I never could have conceived of.

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#33. I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

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#34. When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

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#35. 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.

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#36. Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

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#37. Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

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#38. I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

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#39. The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

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#40. I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

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#41. There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

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

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

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#44. 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.

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#45. I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

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#46. There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

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#47. When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.

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#48. For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

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#49. For me, love is very non-academic. Love, it's a very physical thing. I don't mean physical in terms of - I mean, it can be sexual. But those moments when I'm aware of the fact that I love someone or love something, it really manifests physically.

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

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#51. There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

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#52. The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

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#53. Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.

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#54. I love going on tour and playing music for people.

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#55. I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.

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#56. All human belief systems are inherently flawed.

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#57. Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.

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#58. But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

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#59. The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

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#60. When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.

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#61. Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

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

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#63. You make mistakes and you learn from them.

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#64. To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.

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

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

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#67. If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.

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#68. I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

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#69. My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

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#70. More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.

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#71. 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.

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#72. It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

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#73. I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

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#74. If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

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#75. Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

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#76. Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.

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#77. 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.

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#78. For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

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#79. In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

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#80. I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I'm paraphrasing), he's talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you're not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.

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#81. If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

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#82. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

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#83. Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

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#84. If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

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#85. When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.

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#86. When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

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#87. The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

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#88. Music is just air moving around.

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#89. I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

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

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#91. It's perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

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#92. There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.

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

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#94. Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

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#95. I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

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#96. I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

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#97. I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.

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#98. Twin Peaks was my religion. Well, Twin Peaks and Christianity. But at present, Twin Peaks was winning. I loved God, but at the moment I was more obsessed with Bob and Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne.

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#99. I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

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#100. People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.

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