Quotes About Music

'Kareeb' is a song that changes my mood. It's a happy and peppy song and my definition of it is 'pure entertainment.'

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

'Lucky Day' is what I would call the Shaggy roller-coaster ride. It takes you to different moods. I listen to music in moods.

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

When I'm making a record, I'm trying to take people through different moods.

I don't really consider my music anything other than 'moody.' I don't know if that's a genre.

My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.

When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.

I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.

The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.

I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'm very fortunate with that. That's all. Without the songs, I think, I'd just be a pretty average karaoke singer. In the end, it comes down to the songs: the strength of the songs.

Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.

I used to be followed by a moon shadow. Now I'm followed by all these misconceptions, and they're like a ball and chain. I just want to write music from my heart and give people a message of hope and the search for a better place.

I sing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' It's a country song. It's one of my favorites to sing.

The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I'm going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of 'Dark Side of the Moon.'

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

Everyone loves to dance. I've realize that's a part of what I do more and more every day.