Beatles Quotes

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

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.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

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

Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

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

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.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

The Beatles will go on and on.

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

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

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.

Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

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.

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

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

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

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.