Dave Clark Quotes

The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

I was lucky enough to see the Beatles play live.

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

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.

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

'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.

Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.

Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

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

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them.

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.

I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.

Ready, Steady, Go!' was the show of the '60s in London, where the Beatles, the Stones and the DC5, and every other major act started.