Latest Moby Quotes from Interviews

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• I think the ideal job in that alternative universe would be to lead whitewater rafting trips through the Grand Canyon. So maybe I'd be a guy leading whitewater rafting trips at the Grand Canyon. Or maybe a professional skydiver.

  Moby

  Thinking, Guy, Universe

• Over time, I started becoming more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge of the universe. All human belief systems are inherently flawed. If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic. Also, there's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their interest in science. Anti-science is a function of ignorant fundamentalism.

  Moby

  Christian, Teaching, Believe

• Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you didn't sing in English, you really were limited: You could be successful in the country where people understood your language. The world of electronic music is completely international. You have DJs from Finland making huge records for people in New Zealand, DJs in South Korea making huge records for people in France. By the fact that it doesn't cost anything to make, and that it transcends language, nation it accidentally accomplishes a lot of really remarkable things.

  Moby

  Country, Successful, People

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview With Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

• I think that the current climate enables a lot of musicians to do relatively well. Twenty-five years ago, you could be a bass player in a folk-rock band and do pretty well - that sort of means that you're going to have to go get a day job. But a lot of my friends have learned how to write classical music for movies and produce other people and do remixes, and DJ and go on tour, and do all these different things. The more diverse their approach, the better their chances of actually having a career.

  Moby

  Writing, Mean, Player

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview With Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

• It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works now, and it's heart-breaking to see people make the same mistakes. They're looking at a complicated world, but they just keep blaming immigrants, and it's really disturbing that people haven't got past that.

  Moby

  Mistake, Heart, Past

  Source: thequietus.com

• The world is experiencing great change, but you've got loads of people terrified of this change and the Donald Trumps, the Boris Johnsons making utterly simplistic, reductionist policy proposals that are unrealistic but then people buy it up.

  Moby

  People, World, Proposal

  Source: thequietus.com

• If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

  Moby

  Ignorance, Simple, Two

  Source: thequietus.com

• Old people go to the polls because they can't get erections, young people stay home, do drugs and have sex.

  Moby

  Sex, Home, People

  Source: thequietus.com

• I'm definitely a fan of public humiliation.

  Moby

  Fans, Humiliation

  Source: thequietus.com

• I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

  Moby

  Mean, College, Democracy

  Source: thequietus.com

• I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.

  Moby

  Home, People, Reason

  Source: thequietus.com

• I'm actually cautiously optimistic that Donald Trump will be so bad that he will force America to wake up and realise that forcing America to vote for right wing Republicans is always a terrible idea. It's never been a good idea, but what happened here is you have a president like Obama who gives you eight years of relative stability and prosperity, and people forget that Republicans are just terrible, not just for the country but for the planet. Maybe this is America's equivalent of bottoming out, like a crystal meth addict going on one last big run before they have to get sober.

  Moby

  Running, Country, Optimistic

  Source: thequietus.com

• I feel like sometimes we have to be a little less inclusive and tolerant if other people's opinions could lead to the destruction of our species.

  Moby

  People, Littles, Opinion

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Moby

  Germany, Should, Courses

  Source: thequietus.com

• I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

  Moby

  Ideas, People, Racist

  Source: thequietus.com

• I'm gonna have to start walking down the street and start hitting people in the head!

  Moby

  People, Hitting, Streets

  Source: thequietus.com

• We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

  Moby

  Environmental, Doe, Catastrophe

  Source: thequietus.com

• You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

  Moby

  Cities, People, Addiction

  Source: thequietus.com

• People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.

  Moby

  People, Direct, Consequence

  Source: thequietus.com

• You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they're basically breathing on our necks, and there's no political will or effort being expended to deal with them.

  Moby

  Horse, Political Will, Breathing

  Source: thequietus.com

• When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.

  Moby

  Issues, Political, Climate

  Source: thequietus.com

• As an American, no one expected Donald Trump to ever be a serious candidate for President. I don't think he even expected to be a serious candidate. He wanted the free media he would get.

  Moby

  Thinking, Media, President

  Source: thequietus.com

• In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.

  Moby

  Political, Way, Odd

  Source: thequietus.com

• The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

  Moby

  Political, Aggressive

  Source: thequietus.com

• In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

  Moby

  Vietnam, Way, Election

  Source: thequietus.com