Dave Grohl Quotes

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Nobody can compare themselves to what The Beatles went through. It was wild.

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

I was lucky enough to see the Beatles play live.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

I never saw The Beatles live. I was very aware of them, though.

The Beatles kind of pervade everything. They're always kind of part of everyone's lives.

I think all of The Beatles were from an era when certainly playing was important to them, and they were cutting edge. But for all time, they're master composers.

The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?

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.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.