Top 350 Moby Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I may be a lifelong ‘downtowner,’ but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Moby

259. “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

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

— Moby

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Moby

267. “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

268. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

273. “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

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

— Moby

275. “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

276. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

282. “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

283. “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

284. “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

285. “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

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

— 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 going on tour and playing music for people.”

— Moby

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

— Moby

291. “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

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

— Moby

293. “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

294. “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

295. “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

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

— Moby

297. “There’s a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.”

— Moby

298. “I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay – but no. That’s one of my great regrets.”

— Moby

299. “One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They’ve come into an industry that’s based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it.”

— Moby

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

— Moby