Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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.”

— Moby

203. “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

204. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

207. “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

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

— Moby

209. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

212. “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.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

216. “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

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

— Moby

218. “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

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

— Moby

220. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

224. “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.”

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225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

233. “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

234. “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

235. “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.”

— Moby

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

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237. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

240. “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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241. “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.”

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

— Moby

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

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245. “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

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

— Moby

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.”

— Moby

248. “What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything’s bombastic and in your face. It’s the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.”

— Moby

249. “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.”

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

— Moby