Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I don’t know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.”

— Moby

252. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

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

— Moby

260. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

263. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

266. “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

267. “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

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

274. “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

275. “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

276. “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

277. “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.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

279. “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

280. “The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes – psssh – completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.”

— Moby

281. “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

282. “My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.”

— Moby

283. “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

284. “One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human is that you want to help everybody.”

— Moby

285. “I love going on tour and playing music for people.”

— Moby

286. “I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.”

— Moby

287. “I’d just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.”

— Moby

288. “I wasn’t raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

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291. “I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.”

— Moby

292. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

297. “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

298. “It’s heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.”

— Moby

299. “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

300. “It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, ’cos so far they’ve been pretty foul.”

— Moby