If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.
When I heard The Beatles, I said, 'That's it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle. '
The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!
You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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.
Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.
My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.
Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.
The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown. '. . They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.
They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.
I was raised on The Beatles. I loved Led Zeppelin growing up. Judy Garland. Doris Day. That's where things began. I took a lot from the '60s and maybe from the '40s or '50s as well.
I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. I love 'em. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.
I have loved music since I was a baby and had the chance to begin early. At 14 I had my first band, a quartet, and then many others until I was 19 playing Beatles, Rolling Stones, Mamas & The Papas, Crosby, Stills. . . today we'd call them "cover bands
I never had a magazine, I never listened to a certain band. Actually, I was listening to bands from the '60s and '70s with my dad, so I knew more about The Beatles than I did about what was topical in my life.
I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.