Beatles Quotes - page 2

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God. (Rick Rubin)
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question. View quote
Barry Gibb
I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis. View quote
Brian May
My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music. View quote
Travis Barker
I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it. View quote
Ziggy Marley
I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. View quote
Terry Southern
I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones. View quote
Bill Wyman
The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know? View quote
Billy Preston
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. View quote
Billy Sherwood
I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults. (Bobby Vinton)
They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time. View quote
Bobby Vinton
But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music. View quote
Barry McGuire
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else. View quote
Barry McGuire
My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs. View quote
Christina Perri
Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that. View quote
Chubby Checker
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. View quote
Chuck D
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people. View quote
David Chase
The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious. View quote
Davy Jones
When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything. View quote
Eric Carr
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)
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World. View quote
Feisal Abdul Rauf
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. View quote
Giorgio Moroder
Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them. View quote
Haley Reinhart
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles. View quote
Jack Antonoff