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The chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.
— William Goldman
The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.
— Moby
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.
— Moby
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.
— Moby
A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.
— Moby
People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.
— Moby
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
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
— Nathaniel Philbrick
I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.
— Moby
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
— Moby
I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!"
Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete — Byron Edgington
Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete — Byron Edgington
I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.
— Moby
When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.
— Moby
The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
— Moby
Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.
— Moby
People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.
— Moby
The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.
— Moby
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.
— Moby
I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.
— Moby
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
There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.
— Moby
The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and ... I never think about it.
— Moby
There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.
— Moby
By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that's where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.
— Moby
The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.
— Moby
I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.
— Moby
But the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade
— Herman Melville
When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.
— Moby
There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.
— Moby
Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.
— Moby
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
— Moby
For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.
— Moby
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.
— Moby
For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.
— Moby
But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It's not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America.
— Robert Stone
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)
— Herman Melville
The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.
— Moby
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
— Moby
'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
— John Burnside
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.
— Moby
Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.
— Moby
Melville's Moby-Dick -
— John Irving
Under no circumstances do I ever want to see any part of me having sex! I wouldn't want to see video tape, pictures, in the mirror, nothing.
— Moby
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
— Moby
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.
— Moby
I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.
— Moby
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.
— Moby
I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.
— Moby
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.
— Moby
As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
— Moby
I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'
— Moby
Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.
— Moby
There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.
— Moby
I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.
— Moby
Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.
— Moby
When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.
— Moby
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.
— Moby
I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.
— Moby
As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.
— Moby
To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.
— Moby
I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.
— Moby
I held a beautiful leather-bound copy of Moby Dick in one hand and my Moby dick in the other.
— Nick Pageant
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.
— Moby
I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.
— Moby
Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'
— Moby
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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.
— Moby
I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.
— Moby
When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.
— Moby
I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?
— Chris Kirkpatrick