Steven Soderbergh Quotes

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.

I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.

Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.

People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.

Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.

If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

You can't love music without loving the Beatles.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].