Kim Shattuck Quotes

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.

The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

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

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

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

From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.

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

People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.

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

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

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.

The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard 'Love Me Do' on the radio, I remember walking down the street and knowing my life was going to be completely different now the Beatles were in it.

You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em.

Nobody thought that the music boom of the Sixties was going to last.

Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success.

I was 11 years old when the Beatles broke up. I was a Lennon fanatic - I mean, I loved Paul too, but Lennon was the guy - and there was always this dream of the Beatles getting back together; there was always this hope.

I really like The Beatles.

If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.

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 can only say this with all relative humility: I saw myself as a Beatle.

I remember when I discovered The Beatles with music and The Beatles peaked before I was born and when I discovered them I felt really special.

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

The Beatles changed everything. I knew I couldn't compete, couldn't be as cool, so I went completely the other way.

And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn't believe that I'd gone my whole life without knowing all those songs.

Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis.