Gerald Scarfe Quotes

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

My first introduction to pop music was probably the Osmonds, the Jackson 5, the BeeGees... Then the Beatles eventually. My father was pretty specific about what we listened to early on.

I don't hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them.

Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.

When I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. I have a Beatles song tattooed on my foot. I'm all over the place.

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.