Top 350 Moby Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’ve experienced tons of failure. I’ve been making music for 30 years, and I’d say failure and success have happened in equal measure.”

— Moby

52. “There’s nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.”

— Moby

53. “I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.”

— Moby

54. “When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.”

— Moby

55. “For better or worse, I’m interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.”

— Moby

56. “I like to quote Homer Simpson: ‘I’m like a chocoholic except for alcohol.’ I come from a long line of alcoholics. It’s funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.”

— Moby

57. “Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it’s better than working at Burger King.”

— Moby

58. “I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.”

— Moby

59. “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

60. “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 run.”

— Moby

61. “If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn’t condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.”

— Moby

62. “The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.”

— Moby

63. “There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn’t exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they’re doing, the city government barely works.”

— Moby

64. “I’ve been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I’ve asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?”

— Moby

65. “I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.”

— Moby

66. “So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.”

— Moby

67. “I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here’s hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.”

— Moby

68. “It’s a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you’ve never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it’s disconcerting because I’ve never met this person.”

— Moby

69. “If one of my heroes comes to me and says, ‘Do you want to work on something?’ I just say, ‘Yes.’ I don’t ask for details; I don’t expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.”

— Moby

70. “All human belief systems are inherently flawed.”

— Moby

71. “One of the main reasons I’m vegan is because I’m ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.”

— Moby

72. “The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.”

— Moby

73. “The term ‘renaissance man’ is always bandied about. I don’t think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.”

— Moby

74. “I know, in my heart of hearts, I don’t do things for money.”

— Moby

75. “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

76. “I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It’s seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.”

— Moby

77. “How wondrous familiar is a fool!”

— Moby

78. “There’s not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.”

— Moby

79. “I wish I could sing. I don’t technically have a terrible voice, but it’s certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I’m not a very good singer.”

— Moby

80. “I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor.”

— Moby

81. “Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don’t really know how the music business works.”

— Moby

82. “When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you’re perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.”

— Moby

83. “If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.”

— Moby

84. “Unfortunately I’m still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I’ll wake up gay tomorrow! Here’s hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!”

— Moby

85. “When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.”

— Moby

86. “Actually, the most entitled people I’ve met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.”

— Moby

87. “It’s sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I’m ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.”

— Moby

88. “I’ve dated attractive people and I don’t find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.”

— Moby

89. “More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.”

— Moby

90. “I’m envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.”

— Moby

91. “Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.”

— Moby

92. “Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.”

— Moby

93. “One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it’s played out right under our noses?”

— Moby

94. “What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.”

— Moby

95. “Can’t do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to book them hotel rooms. When you work with your friends, you just call them up and they come over and you record and then you go out to see a movie.”

— Moby

96. “Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it’s baffling.”

— Moby

97. “I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.”

— Moby

98. “You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.”

— Moby

99. “Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn’t really affect any of my professional decisions.”

— Moby

100. “For me, love is very non-academic. Love, it’s a very physical thing. I don’t mean physical in terms of – I mean, it can be sexual. But those moments when I’m aware of the fact that I love someone or love something, it really manifests physically.”

— Moby