Beatles Quotes · Page 10

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of…

— Charlie Heaton

Paul forced the Beatles to work a lot harder than they would have otherwise, and he did the same thing with Wings.

— Denny Laine

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

— James Taylor

“The Beatles thought love was the best answer. I think it’s an even better question.”

— Morgan Clamp

“And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.”

— Morgan Matson

I could be just as happy playing a Beatles song as I am when I'm thrashing out the double bass stuff with…

— Mike Portnoy

I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.

— Leah LaBelle

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

— George Harrison

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I…

— Andre Rieu

I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course,…

— Jason Isbell

It wasn't until after Raspberries, Big Star and Badfinger came to exist that powerpop became a genre. In each case, I suspect…

— Eric Carmen

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a…

— Arlo Guthrie

In the early '70s, coming out of the '60s, it was very hippy or it was very uniform, like The Beatles all…

— John Varvatos

When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even…

— John Morrison

“He revels in all the empowering conveniences that the iPod offers, like being able to ‘correct’ albums by removing their weak tracks…

— Simon Reynolds

Growing up with a dad who was a classic-rock guy, I felt out of place with what was happening in pop culture.…

— King Princess

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're…

— Charlie Benante

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot…

— Jason Behr

My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Mick Taylor

I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it…

— Paul Weller

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

— Dan Fogelberg

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

— Merle Haggard

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

— Eve Babitz

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot…

— Alison Sudol

“ (Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964) "How do you find America?" "Turn left at Greenland.”

— Ringo Starr

It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as…

— Robert Earl Keen

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went…

— David Cassidy

I knew The Beatles before because we did our first television with them, 'Thank Your Lucky Stars.'

— Dave Clark

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one…

— Adam Levine

And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for…

— Buck Owens

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

— Joe Perry

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

— Ravi Shankar

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just…

— Britt Daniel

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

— Simon Rattle

I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle.

— Melvyn Bragg

“I think I'm supposed to "take a sad song and make it better," but that's beyond my musical ability”

— Sophia Bennett

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

— John Lennon

They are my friends. If they are the Beatles or the kings of China, it doesn't matter lo me.

— Astrid Kirchherr