Top 350 Moby Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

259. “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

260. “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

261. “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

262. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

267. “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

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

273. “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

274. “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

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

— Moby

276. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

280. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

283. “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

284. “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

285. “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

286. “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

287. “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

288. “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

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

— Moby

290. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

293. “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

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

— Moby

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

— Moby

296. “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

297. “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

298. “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

299. “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

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

— Moby