Top 350 Moby Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Moby

103. “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

104. “I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That’s all the inspiration I need. And I don’t write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

107. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

110. “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

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

— Moby

112. “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

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

— Moby

114. “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

115. “Music is just air moving around.”

— Moby

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Moby

121. “I’m not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.”

— Moby

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Moby

125. “Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.”

— Moby

126. “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

127. “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

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

— Moby

129. “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

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

— Moby

131. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

134. “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

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. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

139. “For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.”

— 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. “Traffic terrifies me.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

143. “People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.”

— Moby

144. “The solution probably doesn’t look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry – focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.”

— Moby

145. “God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person.”

— Moby

146. “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

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

— Moby

148. “If I had to label myself now, I’d call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.”

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149. “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?”

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150. “When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas – that’s what celebrities are supposed to do. They’re not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.”

— Moby