I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.
When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.
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.
The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
When the Beatles broke up, I thought to myself, 'Dude, seriously?'
Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.
I just shot John Lennon.
Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.
The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
The Beatles were perfect. There's just no other way to say it. They were the perfect band.
If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.
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 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.
The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.
As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was 'Please Please Me.' I'd have been 13 at the time.
From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.
I knew Paul when he was in the Beatles. We did the second Beatles British tour with the Moody Blues. And we became friends. I went to a couple of the sessions for the 'Sgt. Pepper' album, we went to parties together, we went to see Jimi Hendrix together.
I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
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.
