Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Moranis

Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.

Phil Anselmo

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

George Harrison

Like, we're the Beatles after all, aren't we? We have all the money you could ever dream of. We have all the fame you could ever wish for. But, it isn't love. It isn't health. It isn't peace inside. Is it?

Nicolas Cage

He likes Elton John songs, he's a Beatles maniac, he likes to play guitar. He's not your typical FBI agent, at least not the way it's been played in the past,

I couldn't hear much, but didn't care. Until I saw the Beatles play live, I had no idea that musicians could generate that kind of adoration. I was transformed by the whole experience.

James McCartney

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

Jose Gonzalez

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Chris Cornell

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,

Brian Setzer

When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,

P. J. O'Rourke

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

Daniel Barenboim

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

Alice Waters

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

M. Ward

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that its hard to know what really happened. Theres still so much to know.

James Taylor

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.

Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?

Martin Freeman

I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.

Love the Kinks, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and then I run out of names. Those are the three heavies. The Beatles are pretty good. You heard those guys? They're not bad.

Azita Ghanizada

My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.

Steven Price

My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

Todd Rundgren

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.

Robbie Coltraine

He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.

As much as the R&B people, and the gospel people, and spiritual music, and the country-western people influenced them, I think the Beatles were the bar. And they set the bar, and nobody's quite been able to jump beyond it.

The Beatles are one of the most iconic music groups of the 20th century. Their tunes touched so many people's lives. Liverpool's most famous sons touched all corners of the globe. They inspired a generation,

The Beatles were very sensitive about the other groups, ... In the plane, they'd make a point of talking with them. There was a lot of camaraderie there.

Sid Bernstein

The Beatles were no trouble... lots of girls. The Stones were black-jacketed guys, a rough crowd. A whole different scene between the Stones' black leather jackets and the Beatles' pretty-dressed girls with the ribbons in their hair, teenagers standing on the seats screaming, nothing broken.

Justin Hayward

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.

Marc Ribot

The Beatles were a pop group, but when you actually listen to the tracks, they were very rude about the way they went about things.

Joe Johnson

The Beatles sang 'Until There Was You,' and they sang 'All You Need is Love,' and they sang 'I'll Follow The Sun,' and they sang 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' and 'She Loves You.' And those songs hung in there and they were very meaningful and they have great melodies and beautiful lyrics,

The Beatles had gotten so popular so fast that they demanded a switch and Roy went along, opening for them up instead.

Tommy Rettig

The Beatles had already been out for a few years, hair was growing longer and marijuana started to show up at parties and so on.

I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. I love the Beatles and especially John Lennon. My mom and dad let me take the day off school to come here.

Cherie Blair

They want a Beatles song, people want us to sing, they want me to sing?