Moby Quotes

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose.

I got into hip-hop, but I still had appreciation for all types of music, so I was trained to have an open mind and to always go with the flow.

Me, I listen to all kinds of music, really.

People from all walks of life that you might find as a King Diamond fan - you don't look a certain way; you don't have to say certain things. It can be anyone.

There are those who discredit a style or a way of playing and those who accept all the different styles.

Some people dig jazz, some people dig classical music, some people dig rock. Everyone is so concerned about who they like. They always say, 'This guy is the best,' 'No, this guy is the best.' But I think everyone is great. I really don't have barriers to any type of music. I could listen to everything from metal to classical music to anything else.

I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

I understand why it's hard to pin me down because I really relate to so many things. Like, for example, when people ask me what's my favorite music, I can't tell them. I love everything.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.