Top 350 Moby Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Moby

153. “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

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

— Moby

155. “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

156. “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

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

— Moby

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

167. “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

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

— Moby

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

173. “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

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

— Moby

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Moby

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

188. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

191. “You can’t find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it’s rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions – but I’m ten minutes from the centre of the city.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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

196. “New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.”

— Moby

197. “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

198. “If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.”

— Moby

199. “My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people’s confusion.”

— Moby

200. “I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.”

— Moby