Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Moby

104. “Twin Peaks was my religion. Well, Twin Peaks and Christianity. But at present, Twin Peaks was winning. I loved God, but at the moment I was more obsessed with Bob and Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

108. “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

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

— Moby

110. “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

111. “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

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’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

114. “Music is just air moving around.”

— Moby

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

119. “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

120. “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

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

— Moby

122. “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

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

— Moby

124. “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

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

— Moby

126. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

130. “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

131. “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

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

— Moby

133. “Traffic terrifies me.”

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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

139. “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

140. “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

141. “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

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

— Moby

143. “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

144. “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

145. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

149. “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

150. “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