Beatles Quotes · Page 10

I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever…

— Sid Bernstein

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

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

— Gloria Estefan

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

— Astrid Kirchherr

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which…

— Gerry Beckley

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 looked at all the superstars. What is their different thing? Their hair. Beatles, Elvis, James Dean, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe. I…

— Rob Pilatus

They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as…

— George Harrison

The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics…

— Bob Spitz

I was always proud of the fact that Spandau and Duran Duran were like Oasis and Blur or the Beatles and The…

— Martin Kemp

It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became…

— Brian Epstein

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

— Jim James

“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

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

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

— Alastair Wood

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

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

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

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

— Colin Mochrie

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

— Kurt Cobain

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

— John Lennon

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

— Lemmy Kilmister

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

— Lenny Kravitz

Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.

— Bill Hicks

My brain has been programmed to listen to music a certain way because of the Beatles.

— Paul Gilbert

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

— Esai Morales

I go back to things that are nostalgic for me - Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Britney Spears, Stevie Wonder.

— Gus Dapperton

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