Beatles Legacy Quotes

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

What good are three Beatles without John?

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.

The Beatles will go on and on.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.

I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had already broken up and John Lennon died that year.

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.