Justin Hayward Quotes

America was the one territory where they didn’t release ‘Nights In White Satin’ at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after ‘Tuesday Afternoon,’ so I think we have a special fondness for it.

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.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

I sometimes don’t know what songs are about for several years after I’ve written them.

I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don’t be deterred from that. Just develop that something that’s unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that’s all.

I often write things, and then I think it’s too personal for the Moodies. It’s not something that I could share with other guys to say.

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

The Moodies is a responsibility to deliver the goods every night onstage and to do it sincerely; otherwise, it doesn’t work. You’ve got the three guys left in the Moodies that really want to do it onstage, so I think we’re truer to the old records now than we ever were.

I never got a stereo system until about 1969. It was only when I went to America in ’68 and listened to FM radio; I really thought, ‘Wow, there’s something in this.’

The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard ‘Love Me Do’ on the radio, I remember walking down the street and knowing my life was going to be completely different now the Beatles were in it.

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

I was born in Swindon… a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.

I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else’s feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.