Robin Zander Quotes

I like records that are all over the place. That's why I think my favorite Beatles record was always 'The White Album.'

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.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

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'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.

I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

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 like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

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

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

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

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.

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

I never saw The Beatles live. I was very aware of them, though.

I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.

In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.

I listen to a lot of Beatles. I have a very specific Beatles discography that I go to.