Moby Quotes

I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

You can never stop discovering music.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

I love U.K. festivals because people go to watch as many bands as possible. They aren't just there to see their favourites; they'll be there all day long.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

I listen to a lot of stuff. I mean, I'm constantly switching up what I'm listening to.

I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'

The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

I just listen to a lot of stuff. Sometimes I play music; a lot of times, it will be stuff from back in the day. Sometimes I scan through the radio. Not the average stations that play the everyday thing.

But I feel like I developed my own love for hip-hop and rap music by myself. Just growing up and hearing new things. As you grow up, you begin to listen to new music that this kid is listening to, then you begin to like your own music, and start discovering it yourself.

I don't listen to much rap outside of Run DMC and the Beasties, but then I'm pretty burned out on most new music.

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'

My uncle, who gave me my first turntables when I was ten, also gave me records to mix, but I never understood house music. I thought it was boring until I was old enough to go to a club and feel it, the fact that it actually makes you just want to dance.