Top 350 Moby Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.”

— Moby

102. “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

103. “It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you’re not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.”

— Moby

104. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

107. “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

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

— Moby

109. “The reason I didn’t like cocaine is it made me do stupid things, have stupid conversations, and stay awake until 11 o’clock in the morning unable to think, read, sleep or speak.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

112. “Music is just air moving around.”

— Moby

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Moby

121. “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

122. “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

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

— Moby

124. “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

125. “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

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

— Moby

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

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

— Moby

131. “Traffic terrifies me.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

134. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

138. “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

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

— Moby

140. “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

141. “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

142. “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

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

— Moby

144. “I’m perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I’m getting paid for them or not. If they’re on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they’d all be up there and they’d all be free.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

146. “I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that’s being created, but there’s also the magic of the fact that you’re essentially creating something from nothing.”

— Moby

147. “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

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

— 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. “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