Top 350 Moby Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Moby

259. “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

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

— Moby

261. “Music can always serve a role in people’s lives when it’s emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.”

— Moby

262. “You make mistakes and you learn from them.”

— Moby

263. “It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.”

— Moby

264. “I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn’t eat meat.”

— Moby

265. “Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.”

— Moby

266. “A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.”

— Moby

267. “I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.”

— Moby

268. “I’ve had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.”

— Moby

269. “It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it’s so sad that there are so many musicians who don’t want to change the world.”

— Moby

270. “One cell in its unspeakable complexity would be worth the worship and awe of the entire universe. And cells were everywhere, their miraculous ness diminished only by their ubiquity.”

— Moby

271. “A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It’s big and scary and they get lost.”

— Moby

272. “I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I’m not gay.”

— Moby

273. “The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.”

— Moby

274. “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

275. “A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I’m some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women – my mother and her mother and my aunts – and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.”

— Moby

276. “When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.”

— Moby

277. “No one drives in Manhattan – in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don’t even have driving licenses!”

— Moby

278. “New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can’t make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don’t think that’s terribly healthy.”

— Moby

279. “Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn’t exist.”

— Moby

280. “Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.”

— Moby

281. “This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid.”

— Moby

282. “There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.”

— Moby

283. “I realized that I don’t like touring. I’ll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.”

— Moby

284. “When someone comes to me and says the music I’ve made has affected them emotionally, that’s the most gratifying part of my job.”

— Moby

285. “I’ve made records that everyone has hated and I’ve loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I’ve deemed, at best, mediocre.”

— Moby

286. “I love it when celebrities fall apart.”

— Moby

287. “Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.”

— Moby

288. “My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I’ve always had this ethos of, like, ‘try and make a little bit of money now because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.’”

— Moby

289. “I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.”

— Moby

290. “There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.”

— Moby

291. “Because I’ve been that drunk person in the club so many thousands of times, when I’m in an environment where people are drunk or on drugs, I certainly don’t judge them. Because it’s almost a given that for much of my life I’ve been way more messed up than them.”

— Moby

292. “Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I’d look ridiculous.”

— Moby

293. “In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan’s ‘Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35’ is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.”

— Moby

294. “I’m like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.”

— Moby

295. “Shaving your head is acceptable. It’s when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.”

— Moby

296. “I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.”

— Moby

297. “I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.”

— Moby

298. “This isn’t like naming your dog Spot.”

— Moby

299. “I don’t have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.”

— Moby

300. “Some of the songs I’ve made, I’m really disappointed in how I mixed them.”

— Moby