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50 Moby Quotes About Life & Music
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Moby is an American singer, songwriter, DJ, and author. He is most popularly known for his album ‘Play’ which also marked the breakthrough in his music career after the album notably became the highest-selling electronica album to date.
A huge American online music database website ‘AllMusic’ gave him the honorary recognition to be ‘among the most important dance music figures of the early 90s’.
Besides his music career, Moby is also well known for his vegan lifestyle and for being an animal right activist.
His passion for veganism made him venture into the F&B business by owning several vegan restaurants such as ‘TeaNY” and ‘Little Pine’. As a writer, Moby has successfully authored 4 books, including a collection of his photography and memoirs.
Here’s our collection of the best Moby quotes:
50 Moby Quotes About Life & Music
1. “I love NYC. It’s the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.” – Moby
2. “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.” – Moby
3. “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
4. “My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.” – Moby
5. “Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.” – Moby
6. “In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.” – Moby
7. “Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, ‘My appetite is more important than your suffering’?” – Moby
8. “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.” – Moby
9. “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.” – Moby
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10. “Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.” – Moby
11. “I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn’t condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.” – Moby
12. “So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they’re entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don’t want to be a part of.” – Moby
13. “Unfortunately I’m still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I’ll wake up gay tomorrow! Here’s hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!” – Moby
14. “I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.” – Moby
15. “There’s no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self-criticism.” – Moby
16. “Maybe it’s a form of overcompensation, but whenever I’ve toured, I’ve always needed a huge performance component.” – Moby
17. “I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.” – Moby
18. “My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I’ve always had this ethos of, like, try and make a little bit of money now because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.” – Moby
19. “When public figures think they can open a business even though they’ve got no business experience, it’s a bad idea.” – Moby
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20. “Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn’t really affect any of my professional decisions.” – Moby
21. “All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.” – Moby
22. “I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here’s hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.” – Moby
23. “I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there, and if people want to do bizarre remixes if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.” – Moby
24. “If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.” – Moby
25. “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.” – Moby
26. “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
27. “I’m not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.” – Moby
28. “I realized that I don’t like touring. I’ll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.” – Moby
29. “Who wakes up when they’re worth £120million and says, ”m unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!” – Moby
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30. “I like singing, but it’s certainly not my strong point.” – Moby
31. “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
32. “I’ve been making electronic music for twenty-some-odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.” – Moby
33. “Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you’ll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.” – Moby
34. “It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it’s so sad that there are so many musicians who don’t want to change the world.” – Moby
35. “Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don’t really know how the music business works.” – Moby
36. “One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn’t hear music.” – Moby
37. “I have no patience for anyone who thinks they’ve figured things out, no patience for people who think they’re right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.” – Moby
38. “Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.” – Moby
39. “To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.” – Moby
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40. “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.” – Moby
41. “I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.” – Moby
42. “There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it’s 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That’s delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.” – Moby
43. “I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That’s all the inspiration I need. And I don’t write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.” – Moby
44. “Whenever I’ve had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that’s when you learn.” – Moby
45. “I’ve been friends with madonna forever. In fact, she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.” – Moby
46. “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.” – Moby
47. “I won’t complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!” – Moby
48. “I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you’re in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.” – Moby
49. “For me, my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.” – Moby
50. “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.” – Moby
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