(64 quotes found)
“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.”
“Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed,”
“Before the Beatles ever got big, we started out playing rock 'n' roll at The Cavern. I'm going back as a nod to the music that has always -- and will ever -- thrill me,”
“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,”
Brian Setzer
“When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,”
Chris Cornell
“If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.”
Noel Gallagher
“What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?”
Frank Sinatra
“Fads don't last, but it should be clear by now that the Beatles are no ordinary fad.”
The Beatles