I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.
The Beatles and I became fast friends.
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.
The Beatles are the 'on switch' to my life.
The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.
Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.
When the Beatles broke up, I thought to myself, 'Dude, seriously?'
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.
The Beatles were perfect. There's just no other way to say it. They were the perfect band.
If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.
The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.
If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.
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.
I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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