Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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

— Moby

154. “When you’re signed to a big label you’re always in the position of convincing them, especially now because labels are barely keeping the lights on, so getting them to spend a little bit of money is really hard.”

— Moby

155. “When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it’s the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.”

— Moby

156. “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

157. “I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.”

— Moby

158. “I’m sorry, I don’t mean to judge, but I’ve read the gospels quite a few times, and it seems pretty clear that ‘Christian values’ are: 1-humility, 2-non-judgementalism, 3-caring for the poor, 4-compassion, 5-love, and 6-serving God.”

— Moby

159. “When public figures think they can open a business even though they’ve got no business experience, it’s a bad idea.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

161. “Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.”

— Moby

162. “If you make a record, you should ask yourself, ‘Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?’ There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.”

— Moby

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Moby

168. “My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.”

— Moby

169. “NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what’s going on inside.”

— Moby

170. “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

171. “I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You’d go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that’s about it.”

— Moby

172. “I’ve had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I’m on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I’m not very adaptable.”

— Moby

173. “Since I was really little, I’ve just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also because as time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.”

— Moby

174. “My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.”

— Moby

175. “People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.”

— Moby

176. “I like noise. It’s always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.”

— Moby

177. “I remember New York in the ’80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It’s too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.”

— Moby

178. “The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be ‘eclectic.’”

— Moby

179. “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

180. “We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we’ve never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we’d always fall short.”

— Moby

181. “My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I’m not too concerned whether someone is famous.”

— Moby

182. “There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.”

— Moby

183. “I see ‘Ahab’s Wife’ as offering an alternative vision to.”

— Moby

184. “People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.”

— Moby

185. “Somehow, magically, I’ve become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.”

— Moby

186. “I’m like a monk with a taste for hookers.”

— Moby

187. “When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.”

— Moby

188. “I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I’m somewhere between 400 and 500.”

— Moby

189. “I’ve been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.”

— Moby

190. “There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women’s rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they’re pretty much the same beast.”

— Moby

191. “I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late ’90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.”

— Moby

192. “The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what’s gonna happen.”

— Moby

193. “In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I’m motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven’t done anything bad.”

— Moby

194. “For my most of my career I’ve been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.”

— Moby

195. “To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he’s basically saying, if I’ve figured out the secrets of the universe but I don’t have love, figuring out the secrets of universe means nothing.”

— Moby

196. “The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They’re gonna get divorced a few times, they’re gonna be addicted to things, they’re gonna be in therapy.”

— Moby

197. “I’ve been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.”

— Moby

198. “I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.”

— Moby

199. “I won’t complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, ‘Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!’”

— Moby

200. “I don’t sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.”

— Moby