Top 350 Moby Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Moby

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Moby

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Moby

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Moby

168. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Moby

189. “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

190. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

194. “When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e’d up in a field with 50,000 other people.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

196. “I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.”

— Moby

197. “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

198. “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

199. “In the past I’ve had public feuds with people, and I have really not benefited from any of them. The feud with Eminem did kind of torpedo my career in the United States, but it also introduced me to Middle America in a way I never could have conceived of.”

— Moby

200. “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