Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

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

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.

It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.

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

Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?

The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.

Everyone's seen the Beatles.

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

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 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.

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.

I was wanting something new, and for me the Beatles were... outstanding. I was breathless, speechless.

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

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

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.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.