Dave Barry Quotes

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

I think my favorite song is by Led Zeppelin called 'Good Times Bad Times,' a Rolling Stones song called 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' and every song The Beatles ever wrote.

Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

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.

Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much.

In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

I knew Paul when he was in the Beatles. We did the second Beatles British tour with the Moody Blues. And we became friends. I went to a couple of the sessions for the 'Sgt. Pepper' album, we went to parties together, we went to see Jimi Hendrix together.

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

I really consider myself fortunate to have been of age during the musical revolution that came in the form of the Beatles. People don't realize that previous to the Beatles, there really was no such thing as an album artist. People made singles. Then they would put a bunch of those singles together and call it an album. And that was it.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

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