Top 350 Moby Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I love to be busy. I’m envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it’s lingering Calvinist guilt?”

— Moby

202. “It represented a world I didn’t know, the opposite of where I was – and I hated where I was. I hated the poverty, the cigarette smoke, the drug use, the embarrassment, the loneliness. And Diana Ross was promising me that there was a world that wasn’t stained with sadness and resignation. Somewhere there was a world that was sensual and robotic and hypnotic. And clean.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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.”

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207. “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.”

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208. “At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I’ll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don’t necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.”

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

— Moby

210. “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.”

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211. “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

212. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

215. “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

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

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217. “David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.”

— Moby

218. “I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I’d prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.”

— Moby

219. “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

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Moby

231. “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

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

— Moby

233. “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.”

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

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

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236. “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

237. “I may be a lifelong ‘downtowner,’ but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.”

— Moby

238. “I’m a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.”

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239. “I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.”

— Moby

240. “The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.”

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241. “What makes me vulnerable is any genuine expression of emotion in the presence of another person. It makes me vulnerable and my inclination is, of course, immediately to back away from anything that makes me vulnerable.”

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242. “I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself – we all kind of look the same.”

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243. “There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don’t really like that song.”

— Moby

244. “I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.”

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245. “I’d rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.”

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246. “In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a ‘teetotal Christian,’ which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.”

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247. “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.”

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248. “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.”

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249. “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.”

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250. “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