Moby Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

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  Weed, New York, Growing Up

• 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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  Growing Up, Book, Obscure

• 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.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Thinking, Towns

• 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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  Growing Up, Objectivity, Perspective

• 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.

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  Christian, Atheist, Growing Up

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

• Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

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  Growing Up, Diversity, House

• When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.

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  New York, Growing Up, Artist

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

• When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

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  Growing Up, Echoes, Intimate Relationships

• I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a part of it is I also never felt much of a connection to the world in which I lived while I was growing up, and so, oddly enough, I think I felt a lot more connected to the worlds that I read about in science fiction.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Reading, Thinking

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