“The Beatles in 1963 weren't the same Beatles as they were in 1966.”
The Beatles
“You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.”
John Lennon
“Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''”
Paul McCartney
“One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.”
“When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,”
Chris Cornell
“I feel a little bit ridiculous. I've been listening to that 'No. 1' album by The Beatles and it kicks the crap out of our album, but it's still kind of you to vote (for us).”
Dave Matthews Band
“What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?”
Frank Sinatra