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

— Justin Hayward

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

— Jimmy Page

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

— Denny Laine

I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.

— Denny Laine

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on…

— Tom Waits

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians,…

— Mick Taylor

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when…

— Ato Essandoh

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was…

— Keith Richards

A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had goofs and…

— Paul Rodgers

Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working with Paul,…

— Denny Laine

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

— Van Morrison

Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix,…

— Phil Collen