Todd Rundgren Quotes

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

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

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.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

Nothing that Robert Plant does will ever equal Led Zeppelin, but that doesn't mean he's going to stop being creative. Jimmy Page has so many incredibly cool projects, but it's not Led Zeppelin; there will only ever be one Led Zeppelin.

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.

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.

So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history.

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

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.

You can't love music without loving the Beatles.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

There's no outdoing The Beatles.

When Mahavishnu came out in '71, the unbelievable reaction to the band was a real shock to me. It was a shock to everybody.

Elvis is great and so is anybody who lasts like he does.

Nobody can compare themselves to what The Beatles went through. It was wild.

I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

The Beatles kind of pervade everything. They're always kind of part of everyone's lives.

Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.

I think it's really important to show new styles of song and music. I think that's what people want to see and hear from me.