John 5 Quotes

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

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.

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

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.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

I always liked that about bands like the Beatles. They could be so touching at one moment and then 'Helter Skelter' the next.

I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America. My father brought them home. It was definitely the earliest musical influence on my life, and still one of the greatest.

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

I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.

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

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.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.

We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs.

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.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

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

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.

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.

There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is 'Sgt. Pepper' has something that was just completely different and unique at that moment.