Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it’s not interesting to blame genetics.”

— Moby

252. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

257. “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

258. “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

259. “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

260. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

263. “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

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Moby

267. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

270. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

273. “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

274. “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

275. “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

276. “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

277. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

280. “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

281. “If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I’d be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.”

— Moby

282. “As a New Yorker you can’t help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.”

— Moby

283. “If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn’t really exist anymore.”

— Moby

284. “I have no perspective as regards my work. One reason I put out records and books is people respond to it, and it enables you to actually see the work more clearly. It’s a form of therapy for me. Sometimes abusive therapy.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

287. “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

288. “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

289. “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

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

— Moby

291. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

296. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

300. “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