Top 350 Moby Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.”

— Moby

202. “If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he’d probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.”

— Moby

203. “One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it’s arbitrary. If you’re comfortable with your belief you don’t need to convince other people to agree with you.”

— Moby

204. “I can’t think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.”

— Moby

205. “I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.”

— Moby

206. “The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don’t have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.”

— Moby

207. “I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

210. “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

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

— Moby

212. “I love the fact that no one’s ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.”

— Moby

213. “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

214. “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

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

— Moby

216. “I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.”

— Moby

217. “Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don’t know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that’s what inspires my interest.”

— Moby

218. “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

219. “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

220. “I’ve never seen ‘Friends;’ I’ve never seen ‘Seinfeld.’ I’ve heard people reference these things but I’ve never seen them.”

— Moby

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

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

— Moby

225. “That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife.”

— Moby

226. “I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, ‘Does this make any sense to you?’”

— Moby

227. “I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.”

— Moby

228. “Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you’ll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.”

— Moby

229. “There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people’s opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it’s almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.”

— Moby

230. “Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.”

— Moby

231. “When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.”

— Moby

232. “If someone is cynical and doesn’t vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.”

— Moby

233. “The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it’s not interesting to blame genetics.”

— Moby

234. “I’m not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.”

— Moby

235. “When I tour I’m going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or a condemnation of that country’s policies. My presence in a country is an effort to connect with people through playing music.”

— Moby

236. “There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can’t complain.”

— Moby

237. “Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.”

— Moby

238. “Musicians, actors, writers – we’re all neurotic, odd people who’ve lucked into accidental careers. So I just don’t like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.”

— Moby

239. “As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.”

— Moby

240. “As far as I’m concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.”

— Moby

241. “For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.”

— Moby

242. “Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.”

— Moby

243. “Mainly I’m a vegan because I like animals, and I don’t want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it’s better for my health and for the environment.”

— Moby

244. “There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren’t very inspiring.”

— Moby

245. “We almost need to cultivate – I hate to sound New Age-y – but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.”

— Moby

246. “Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.”

— Moby

247. “The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.”

— Moby

248. “I’ve done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it’s just they weren’t documented.”

— Moby

249. “I don’t know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.”

— Moby

250. “There’s really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You’re doing good work. If you’re involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.”

— Moby