Beatles Quotes · Page 10

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

— Roger McGuinn

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

— Yoko Ono

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The…

— Princess Nokia

“This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against life.”

— Martin Amis

I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about…

— James Gunn

I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.

— John Lennon

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of…

— Dave Barry

Growing up in San Diego, my main interests were the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, 'Star Wars,' baseball cards, and drawing.

— Kyle Mooney

I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good…

— Martin Freeman

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute…

— Joe Perry

I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were…

— Alasdair MacLean

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles…

— Finn Wolfhard

My kids will come to me and ask me to listen to a 'new sound' they think they've discovered. One time it…

— Henry Mancini

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and…

— Daniel Barenboim

When I met the Beatles, they were wearing these funny little leather jackets, which inspired me. I had a suit made for…

— Astrid Kirchherr

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til…

— Wayne Kramer

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

— Alastair Wood

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

— Tom Stoppard

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

— Stephen King

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.

— David Jason

I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

— Anonymous

I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

— Leon Russell

When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.

— Jim James

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

— Gloria Estefan

The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.

— Donovan

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

— Robyn Hitchcock

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

— Ian Brown

Bigger than the Beatles? Well, how many grammys did they win? Exactly, none, yet I have one, and I've never even released…

— Zach Braff

I became the European amateur champion in Liverpool back in 2008. I visited the Beatles museum, and after the final, I went…

— Oleksandr Usyk

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be…

— Ringo Starr

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

— Nancy Wilson

Everyone dreams of being in a band because they want to be like the Beatles, but even the Beatles weren't always that…

— Mick Hucknall

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake…

— Alice Cooper

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used…

— Colin Mochrie

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music,…

— Ridley Scott

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to…

— Paul McCartney

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

— Lenny Kravitz

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs…

— Lemmy Kilmister

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

— John Lennon