Quotes About Beatles Influence

#1. The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

Barry McGuire

#2. A key that can open many locks is called a master key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a shitty lock

Unknown

#3. I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

Cecily Strong

#4. And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#5. We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

Eliot Engel

#6. We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

Chuck Comeau

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

Rivers Cuomo

#8. I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

Paul McCartney

#9. I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

Paul Simon

#10. This was the dangerous line women had to walk. Curiosity versus consequences.

Marilyn Brant

#11. Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at my little collection here. Let's see. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Talking Heads, Prince and the Revolution, Michael Jackson's Thriller was a huge one.

Jeremy Enigk

#12. I know you've forgotten me, but I'll remember you as long as I live.

Julio Alexi Genao

#13. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

Ed Sheeran

#14. Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

Albert Brooks

#15. Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

Damon Albarn

#16. There is no creature more singular or dangerous than the educated woman.

Rachael Eyre

#17. Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Barry Manilow

#18. I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.

Tod Machover

#19. We can't always take the most obvious road in life.

Anne Shirley