Beatles Quotes

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.
Jon Landau

Rock, Nothing, Old

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'
Jon Landau

Music, Work, Best

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.
Jon Landau

Around, While, Act

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.
Jon Landau

Rock, Often, Changes

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.
Jon Landau

Perfect, Often, Took

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
Colin Mochrie

Used, Songs, Stones

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
Mick Taylor

Great, Learning, Thought

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.
Ray Dalio

Learned, Heard, York

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
Alex Kapranos

Feeling, Single, Idea

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Christian Lacroix

English, Songs, Class

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.
Michel Gondry

Home, Made, Songs

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
Gavin Rossdale

Great, Small, Bands

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen

Together, Again, Sing

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.
Sheryl Lee

Father, Last, Sister

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.
Brian May

Anybody, Close, Oasis

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
John Mellencamp

Work, Great, Anybody

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
Ornette Coleman

Time, Good, Long

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.
Liam Gallagher

Jesus, Big, Bigger

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.
Liam Gallagher

Favorite, Album

Everyone's seen the Beatles.
Dhani Harrison

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.
Tina Weymouth

Hard, Found, Escape

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.
Andre Rieu

Busy, Around, Later

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

Lost, Popular, Million

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.
Bobby Vinton

Change, Time, Said

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
Peter Tork

Time, Friends, Courteous

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne

Music, Time, Money

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
Robyn Hitchcock

Everyone, Everybody, Knew

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
Robyn Hitchcock

Else, Everybody, Hear

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.
Robyn Hitchcock

Time, Great, Mind

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
Dweezil Zappa

Music, Dad, Missing

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