Beatles Quotes · Page 14

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it…

— Joey Ramone

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

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

— William F. Buckley, Jr

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

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

— Jim James

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions,…

— Patricia Barber

The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much…

— John Lennon

I try to create something that draws you in without overthinking it. Something that resonates with you automatically that you don't have…

— Frank Dukes

The band that made me want to be a musician in the first place was the Beatles. And I think John Lennon…

— Paul Gilbert

That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do…

— Ryan Ross

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my…

— Muhammad Ali

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We…

— Paul McCartney

I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the…

— Billy Squier

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

— Gloria Estefan

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

— Leon Russell

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

— John Lennon

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

— James Gunn

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

— Martin Amis

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

— Alastair Wood

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

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

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

— Lenny Kravitz

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

— Kurt Cobain

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

— Colin Mochrie

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

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

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

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

— Gus Dapperton

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

— Esai Morales

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

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

— Ian Brown