Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I truly don’t judge other people’s actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.”

— Moby

103. “I think we’re like farm animals before an earthquake.”

— Moby

104. “I’m sure most people have this experience: when you’re young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.”

— Moby

105. “I’m not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she’s like a folk hero.”

— Moby

106. “Music is just air moving around.”

— Moby

107. “Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It’s a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.”

— Moby

108. “I feel like someone who’s meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.”

— Moby

109. “The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That’s how life works.”

— Moby

110. “A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.”

— Moby

111. “I’ve been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.”

— Moby

112. “Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that’s when things go downhill.”

— Moby

113. “I would drink and drink and then at 3 o’clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I’d sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I’d do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.”

— Moby

114. “I’m pretty much a realist. There’s a certain age you get to when you’re not really going to be shown anymore.”

— Moby

115. “God took his chosen people and we are what’s left. He looked at what’s left and thought: I could kill you all, but let’s see what happens. A little social experiment.”

— Moby

116. “No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.”

— Moby

117. “If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.”

— Moby

118. “I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.”

— Moby

119. “I think the word ‘blog’ is an ugly word. I just don’t know why people can’t use the word ‘journal.’”

— Moby

120. “We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else’s will involuntarily forced upon you.”

— Moby

121. “My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.”

— Moby

122. “What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.”

— Moby

123. “When I say, ‘I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,’ I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I’m not saying I’m right.”

— Moby

124. “I like being vegan, I think it’s good for my health.”

— Moby

125. “As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people’s lives.”

— Moby

126. “Traffic terrifies me.”

— Moby

127. “One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn’t hear music.”

— Moby

128. “In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.”

— Moby

129. “I like singing, but it’s certainly not my strong point.”

— Moby

130. “Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.”

— Moby

131. “One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they’ve made it.”

— Moby

132. “Maybe it’s a form of overcompensation, but whenever I’ve toured, I’ve always needed a huge performance component.”

— Moby

133. “But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.”

— Moby

134. “When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I’m not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn’t too rigorous or challenging.”

— Moby

135. “When I saw music as a means to an end – more fame, more money, dating celebrities – that’s when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it’s really good, it’s just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.”

— Moby

136. “If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren’t going to be interested.”

— Moby

137. “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 might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.”

— Moby

138. “But at the same time, I don’t let myself regret things to the point that I’m paralyzed.”

— Moby

139. “Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.”

— Moby

140. “I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you’re in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.”

— Moby

141. “If I’m walking down the street and someone stops me and says, “Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister’s funeral,” that’s when it hits me.”

— Moby

142. “The worst case scenario is you really like someone’s work, then you meet them and they’re a self-involved, entitled douchebag.”

— Moby

143. “My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn’t very good, but my pronunciation isn’t terrible.”

— Moby

144. “It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?”

— Moby

145. “I’ve been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I’m still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.”

— Moby

146. “I have no patience for anyone who thinks they’ve figured things out, no patience for people who think they’re right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.”

— Moby

147. “For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know – most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don’t really get much flack for it.”

— Moby

148. “If there is true evil in the world – it is Republican conservatives.”

— Moby

149. “I was in bar about 15 years ago, a relationship had ended badly, I was very drunk and I thought I would convince myself to try and be gay. Like, at one point I didn’t like coffee, then I learned to like it.”

— Moby

150. “I don’t think I’m a particularly good writer, and I’m not terribly insightful.”

— Moby