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Quotes About Beatles

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
~ Britt Daniel
Well, the first time I met The Beatles was through my former boyfriend, Klaus Voormann, who saw them one night when he was wandering around Hamburg and then he heard this beautiful sound of rock 'n' roll music.
~ Astrid Kirchherr
When I heard The Beatles, that was my turning point. They were like my mentors. You know, the funny thing about that, when I heard 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' at first I said these guys are like a flash in the pan. But the second album, I had to take all that back. John Lennon - one of the greatest writers in the world.
~ Billy Paul
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.
~ Eric Carr
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.
~ Chris Cornell
The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.
~ Edward Zwick
Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.
~ Jon Landau
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.
~ Britt Daniel
Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out.
~ Donovan
It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
~ John Lennon
Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That's just a joke.
~ Bono
The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
~ Zooey Deschanel
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...
~ John Deacon
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
~ Aaron Copland
Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don't like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.
~ Jack White
Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
~ Piero Scaruffi
The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.
~ David Allan Coe
The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
~ Ryan Tedder
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.
~ Timothy Leary
I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.
~ Tig Notaro
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.
~ Jon Landau
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
~ John Lennon
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
~ Alice Waters