Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

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

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

I've never written to a band since the Beatles. Since the Dave Clark Five!

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.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

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.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

I was lucky enough to see the Beatles play live.

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can't think of anyone else, but all that stuff.

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

The Dave Clark Five had more appearances on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' than The Beatles.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

My dad influenced my musical taste. I grew up listening to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones and a bunch of rock music from the '60s. Now, instead of watching TV, I'll play a record from start to finish.