The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated. Moby More Quotes by Moby More Quotes From Moby A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. Moby auntmothertrying I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine. Moby linesmorningsometimes 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 judgingpeoplefall 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 wakingmomentslittles Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!' Moby wake-upunhappytoday 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...' Moby wastedrugfeel-good 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. Moby depressingfinancialpeople Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. Moby touringstrange As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives. Moby connectionsinternetpeople At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections. Moby googleriskmorning Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal. Moby justificationcriminalsenough 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 recordslooksway 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 working-alonemusicianmissing 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. Moby sociallittlespeople 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. Moby crazywingsneeds There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed. Moby catdoganimal 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. Moby renaissancementhinking Lord, I want to be up in my heart. Moby my-heartwantheart New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of. Moby citiesnew-yorkthinking 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. Moby rightsdarkanimal
