Mood Quotes

• Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Swings

• I know that people don't listen to music much in the way when they'll put on a CD, sit down, have a drink or go on a car journey. People pick and choose and just listen to tracks. But when I make a record, I try to think about it as a 50 minute musical journey, so the mood is very important, as is the sequence of the songs.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Team
  • Sometimes
  • Win

• There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Business
  • Mood

• We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

  

  Franz Marc
  • True
  • Mood
  • Champagne

• It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Music
  • Environment
  • Listening

• I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Mood
  • Consistency

• I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

  

  Doc Watson
  • Music
  • Mood

• What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.

  

  Trey Songz
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Mood

• To me, running is therapy. It's mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It's also a great release and a great energy builder.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Therapy

• I look forward to physical activity; it's a release from stress and a nice distraction. It puts me in a better mood. I never used to take classes before, but then I tore my plantar fascia so I couldn't run. I started taking SoulCycle classes, which I know are polarizing. People have strong opinions. Even though I can run again, I still go.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • Strong
  • Nice

• Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.

  

  David Ortiz
  • People
  • Why
  • Everyday

• If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Challenge
  • Genius
  • Rules

• The actors feel that the music played before the curtain rises will put the audience in the wrong mood. The playwright suggests that the (purposefully lugubrious) music be played at twice-speed. This peps it up somewhat while retaining its essentially dark and gloomy character. The actors listen carefully, and are pleased.

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • Up
  • Music
  • Character

• I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Taken

• I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

  

  John Mayall
  • Real
  • Mood

• Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists.

  

  Fleur East
  • Writing
  • Write
  • Songs

• At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mood

• Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Intimate Friends

• It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Courage
  • Emotion
  • Realizing

• I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Father

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