Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Nothing can stop us now ’cause we are all made of stars.”

— Moby

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2. “Let peace and beauty reign.”

— Moby

3. “And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.”

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4. “One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.”

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5. “Lord, I want to be up in my heart.”

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6. “To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.”

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7. “Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

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8. “What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that’s toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.”

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9. “Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.”

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10. “I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.”

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11. “That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.”

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12. “For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.”

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13. “To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.”

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14. “I love lots of different types of music, but it’s music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.”

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15. “If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it’s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.”

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16. “My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.”

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17. “It’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.”

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18. “Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.”

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19. “Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.”

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20. “Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.”

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21. “Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It’s almost a form of cognitive dissonance.”

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22. “The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.”

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23. “There’s an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o’clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It’s off-putting but there’s a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “I love nyc. It’s the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.”

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26. “I like tea and yoga, but I don’t do yoga.”

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27. “I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.”

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28. “A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who’s kind to his children.”

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29. “When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I’m happy to hang out with them. It’s better than being at home, depressed, reading ‘The Hobbit.’”

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30. “Whenever I’ve had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that’s when you learn.”

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31. “I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.”

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32. “There’s no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.”

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33. “I feel like the vast majority of the world’s problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.”

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34. “Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.”

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35. “I’m straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what’s out there. I find that a little overwhelming.”

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38. “By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “I don’t think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can’t find anyone better to sing, or when I’m too lazy to find someone better.”

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41. “I don’t think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense – I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.”

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42. “Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o’clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.”

— Moby

43. “Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.”

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44. “You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that’s not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.”

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45. “I’d much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.”

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48. “I’m a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.”

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49. “Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.”

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50. “All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.”

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