Moby Quotes

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

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.

Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.

One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

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

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.

Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.

I'm definitely a fan of public humiliation.

I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.

I feel like sometimes we have to be a little less inclusive and tolerant if other people's opinions could lead to the destruction of our species.

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 lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

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

I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

I think we’re like farm animals before an earthquake.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

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

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.

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.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

I'm gonna have to start walking down the street and start hitting people in the head!

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril,

Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.