The Beatles Quotes

• One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • The Beatles
  • Humiliate

• I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • History
  • The Beatles
  • Rory Storm

• The Beatles never get old.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • The Beatles

• I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • England
  • The Beatles
  • My Dad

• I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Music
  • Mountain
  • I Remember

• Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Act
  • The Beatles
  • Roy Orbison

• I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Music
  • Move
  • The Beatles

• The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues...

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Inspired
  • The Stones
  • American Rhythm

• The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Star Wars
  • Euphoric
  • Red Album

• The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

  

  Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Music
  • Greek
  • Mythology

• In the golden era of the 60s, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones dominated the American charts.

  

  Ricky Wilson Kaiser Chiefs
  • The Beatles
  • Charts
  • Golden Era

• I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • I Love
  • Bands
  • The Beatles

• I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Band

• The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • God
  • Relationship
  • George

• We didn't have a strong drug scene by any means. Originally, it was just purple hearts, amphetamines, speed or whatever you want to call it. When The Beatles went down south, they sometimes brought back cannabis and gradually the drug scene developed in Liverpool.

  

  Bob Wooler
  • Hearts
  • South
  • Drug scene

• I mean we The Beatles had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Humiliation
  • Showbiz
  • Lord Mayors

• I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Amazing
  • Playing
  • Guitar

• I listen to The Beatles, we both with Abilities listen to everything.

  

  Eyedea
  • Abilities
  • The Beatles

• When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Book
  • House
  • Player

• I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Germany
  • The Beatles

• The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Influence
  • The Beatles
  • Explosion

• The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Kids
  • America
  • Jesus

• It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Members
  • Influenced
  • Rolling Stones

• Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Family
  • Fans
  • Concerned

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