--- title: "10 Growing Quotes By Moby" description: "10 Growing quotes by Moby. Plus more from Moby and more Growing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d3/moby-549_growing_growing-in-numbers-growing-in-speed-2523_2523916.png" --- > [Growing in numbers. Growing in speed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/growing-in-numbers-growing-in-speed/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d3/moby-549_growing_growing-in-numbers-growing-in-speed-2523_2523916.png) > [Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/growing-up-in-connecticut-all-the-colonial-houses-looked-alike-in-los/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e41/moby-549_colonial_growing-up-in-connecticut-all-the-coloni_1879540.png) > [I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-love-that-vinyl-is-actually-growing-in-popularity-and-that-there/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/moby-549_growing_i-love-that-vinyl-is-actually-growing-in_1316864.png) > [I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-think-that-growing-up-very-poor-in-a-very-wealthy-town-gave-me-a/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9e/moby-549_growing_i-think-that-growing-up-very-poor-in-a-v_940949.jpg) > [When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/when-i-was-growing-up-i-was-an-atheist-then-an-agnostic-and-then-i/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/332/moby-549_agnostic_when-i-was-growing-up-i-was-an-atheist-t_2635836.png) > [When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/when-i-was-growing-up-albums-were-my-closest-friends-as-sad-as-that/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/moby-549_albums_when-i-was-growing-up-albums-were-my-clo_359875.jpg) > [When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/when-i-was-growing-up-i-fetishised-new-york-city-it-was-the-land-of/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f2/moby-549_artist_when-i-was-growing-up-i-fetishised-new-y_1628702.png) > [When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/when-i-was-growing-up-i-was-the-most-pretentious-person-i-have-ever/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/719/moby-549_book_when-i-was-growing-up-i-was-the-most-pre_1440591.png) > [When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/when-i-was-growing-up-all-i-wanted-to-do-was-fit-in-but-if-you-re/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fd/moby-549_connected_when-i-was-growing-up-all-i-wanted-to-do_2538522.png) > [I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-guess-on-one-hand-i-spent-way-too-much-time-watching-science/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/moby-549_connected_i-guess-on-one-hand-i-spent-way-too-much_764853.jpg) ## Other authors on Growing ## More by Moby > [If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/if-nirvana-had-remained-a-small-underground-punk-rock-band-kurt/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/a-great-song-is-a-great-song-whether-it-s-on-vinyl-or-cd-or-cassette/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/when-i-dj-at-big-venues-i-try-to-play-tracks-that-i-would-want-to/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/the-good-thing-about-not-being-drop-dead-gorgeous-is-that-as-time/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/when-you-look-at-the-consequences-of-climate-change-at-rainforest/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/what-i-love-about-making-albums-in-the-21st-century-is-that-so-few/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/factory-farm-lobbyists-are-so-powerful-and-so-well-funded-and-they-do/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/what-makes-me-feel-old-is-having-no-hair-on-the-top-of-my-head/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/up-until-i-started-working-with-him-i-had-thought-that-music-was-a/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-m-obsessed-with-politics-and-i-talk-about-it-any-chance-i-can-get-i/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [As I wake its kaleidoscopic mind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/as-i-wake-its-kaleidoscopic-mind/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [Even love is goin' 'round. You can't ignore what is goin' 'round](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/even-love-is-goin-round-you-can-t-ignore-what-is-goin-round/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [“I had an epiphany a few years ago when I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-had-an-epiphany-a-few-years-ago-when-i-was-out-at-a-celebrity-party/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-see-ahab-s-wife-as-offering-an-alternative-vision-to/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) > [I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-think-that-for-a-lot-of-us-the-closer-we-get-to-showing-people-who/) [Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/growing/moby/#itemlist", "name": "10 Growing Quotes By Moby", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Growing in numbers. 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