Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Moby

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

209. “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

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

— Moby

211. “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

212. “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

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. “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

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

— Moby

216. “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

217. “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

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

— Moby

219. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Moby

226. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

230. “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

231. “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

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

— Moby

233. “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

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

— Moby

235. “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

236. “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

237. “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

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

— Moby

239. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

242. “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

243. “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

244. “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

245. “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

246. “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

247. “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

248. “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

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.”

— Moby

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

— Moby