I can’t deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.
So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.
As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
I’m touched by rock n’ roll. I’m touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
My father used to say, ‘What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.’ And it was The Beatles.
I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.
Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don’t know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.
The most important thing I gave the Beatles was my friendship. They trusted me: there was no fear in being photographed.
The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
There’s so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was ‘Help!’ by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.
The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard ‘Love Me Do’ on the radio, I remember walking down the street and knowing my life was going to be completely different now the Beatles were in it.
When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
The Dave Clark Five had more appearances on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ than The Beatles.
Look at The Beatles: how they struggled, how they worked in order to become such a good little band. And that’s why they had such longevity and are still admired today.
There’s no outdoing The Beatles.
It was a free-for-all; the BBC wouldn’t play anything so we had pirate radio playing the African-American music and the Beatles and greats like Howlin’ Wolf and Robert Johnson and Motown’s Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and Otis Redding.
The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
The Beatles are great for everybody – they write the songs that made the whole world sing.
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
One day, Travi$ is going to be moving like The Beatles.
As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.
In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles.
The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
We’ve got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.
Im a product of my influences, and those are the 60s. All analog. I loved the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Stones – and then later on, of course, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix.
You can’t keep away from the public too much, but you had to be protected to some degree and I saw that in Paul a lot. People were obsessive about the Beatles. It’s a hard thing to have to deal with being that famous.
I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.
Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it’s a bit of a fantasy, but it’s a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn’t quite like that.
I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that’s how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, ‘Here’s the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write ‘Let It Be.’
They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.
I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.
I don’t remember ‘Doctor Who’ not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It’s in my DNA.
India brings out so many different feelings in me. I’ve been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember – ever since the ’60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.
Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it’s hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn’t compose in the early American rock tradition.
My mom and dad have two very different tastes in music, so they were playing everything from Prince to the Beatles to Aaliyah.
Right after we recorded ‘Satanic Satanist’ and ‘American Ghetto’ here in Boston, we decided we’d grow our hair out. This is – was – like the Beatles thing. I wanted to see these pictures later in life.
I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles’ ‘Every Little Thing,’ but I don’t know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don’t think we ever did it actually in the show.
I’ll be honest. We copied everyone… the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that’s one of their favorite songs of all time.
It’s like Christians who want to be like Jesus. We’re just trying to follow in someone’s footsteps. Might as well be The Beatles.
We came from the ’60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the ’60s was so darn good, you’ve got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too… amazing records, amazing songs.
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they’re fantastic.
As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
Ringo isn’t the best drummer in the world. He isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.
I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that… rock music became a huge economic force.
I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.
We copied our hairstyle from Prince Charles, not the Beatles.
We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there’s always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
From 1958 to 1964, that’s real rock n’ roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.
I respect my dad, and he’s amazing. He’s my hero. He’s the Beatles, man – or one of them.
When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!
