Beatles Quotes

• As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was 'Please Please Me.' I'd have been 13 at the time.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Teenage

• I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Grew Up
  • Sold
  • Singles

• The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • People
  • Business
  • Happy

• With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Respect
  • Mistake
  • Attitude

• My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

  

  Sean Connery
  • Girl
  • Dom Perignon
  • Earmuffs

• I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. I love 'em. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Happy
  • I Love
  • Lie

• I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Chords

• Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Trust
  • Musicians
  • Beatles

• When the Beatles were on 'Ed Sullivan,' life went from black and white to color like in 'The Wizard of Oz' - and the irony I'm in the band Toto is not lost on me.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Life
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Ed Sullivan

• I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Scream
  • Beatles
  • Heads

• The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Loved
  • Guys
  • Beatles

• For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time.

  

  Bernard Fanning
  • Christmas
  • Kiss
  • Record

• It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Year
  • Stones
  • Beatles

• My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Beatles
  • Trap

• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Promo

• I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Beatles
  • Elvis
  • Salvador Dali

• The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Time
  • Alive

• It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Experience
  • Singing
  • Weak

• I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Beatles

• We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Beatles
  • Girlfriends

• The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Band
  • Changes
  • Album

• But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

  

  Bob Gaudio
  • Music
  • Story
  • Phenomenon

• When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

  

  Jon Landau
  • Music
  • Recording
  • Beatles

• The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

  

  Nigel Kennedy
  • Group
  • Beatles
  • Classical

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