Beatles Quotes
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I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America. My father brought them home. It was definitely the earliest musical influence on my life, and still one of the greatest.
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The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.
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There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.
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India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
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Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.
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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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The Beatles' story is all of our stories.
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For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.
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Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.
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I think we are just in a tradition of bands that are not excited by super-macho guitar music. To me it goes back to the Beatles.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.
