Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles
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"You couldn't help but have the Beatles change your whole world. How could it not? Think about where we were coming from, man – the kind of things you expected from bands before them was . . . dim. And then here was this blazing, glorious panoply of color and sounds – it was…
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"They were like this enormous life force . . . I’m a huge Beatles fan, man. They wrote some of the greatest songs ever in life – just great, great songwriters. Those songs are going to live on and on and on, they’re going to be like Beethoven, you know. And I want to point…
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"'Hey Jude,' now that’s beautiful. That should be what music is all about. The Beatles were great performers, too; we worked together in Hamburg before they were famous. You could tell they had something, you know. Because they didn’t sound like nobody else. They really did…
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"The thing that people misunderstand about the Beatles is that they were never simple. It takes a lot of really brilliant songwriting to have things come off like that, but when you listen to even the older songs, you think, oh my god, these are really sophisticated. Not only…
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"I was brought up on that music. I learned how to sing singing their songs. I learned harmony listening to John Lennon's voice. If anything went wrong, I'd go into my room and put on a Beatles record, and I got a lot of comfort from that. I thought they were the best thing…
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"At the Peabody [conservatory] I had the Let It Be album with the four pictures on the cover. I'd put it up and sing to Paul and John . . . I was kicked out because I argued with the establishment that didn’t believe in teaching Beatles music. I wanted them to analyze popular…
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"Pure quality, simplicity and heart—that is really all that great music needs. But those three elements in combination are not easy to find these days, which is why generation after generation come back to the Beatles and look to them for inspiration. The Beatles remain the…
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"Really, I got into music having heard the Beatles. And to this day, most people I know regret not having been a Beatle [chuckles]. I mean, they were just the most amazing force. In the UK, when they came out, there was a huge social and cultural change, which was led by their…
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"As far as most musicians were concerned, until the Beatles arrived, the lead guitarist didn’t exist. George Harrison defined that role. No one should underestimate his achievements. He's often overlooked because his guitar parts are so finely tailored, but if you listen…
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"The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show was the biggest bang of my life [and] the most important event in rock 'n' roll history - a phenomenon that hasn’t been seen before or since. It was a new world of infinite possibilities that began for us on February 9, 1964. I believe a…
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"To be against the Beatles is to be against life."
--Martin Amis
#Literature
#MartinAmis
#50Greatest
#KingsleyAmis
#TheBeatles
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"'If I Needed Someone' devastated me when it came to the harmonies. When they get to the chorus - [sings] - they just do this thing with their voices, and they blend . . . I couldn’t believe it. It was just something I needed to study, and I listened to it over and over again.…
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"I can’t imagine what would have happened in music without the Beatles. Keep in mind that in the early ‘60s, the biggest-selling long-playing records were things like My Fair Lady. Albums weren’t considered a medium for rock & roll; it was all about singles. The labels still…
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"Why are the Beatles good? Because they were geniuses. They’re writers, and boy, two heads are better than one, but three heads? Genius."
--
#ChuckBerry
#RockNRoll
#FatherOfRockNRoll
#Songwriters
#TheBeatles
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"I was living in Berlin. Whenever my half-sister came to visit us, she always brought her Beatles records. My mother and she were both like teenagers. When my father [Klaus Kinski] wasn’t there, they would put on the Beatles and dance like crazy . . . [And] when I was between…
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"The amazing thing about the Beatles, for me, was that every record sounded different, every song sounded different, and it was still the same people. So, working on our early albums – specifically The Yes Album and then Fragile – that’s when we really opened up and found our…
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"The Beatles certainly have revolutionized what can be done in the studio and what can be said on record, what can be done on record. And people follow them. And I don’t know how good that is. Seems every record today stops in the middle and goes into some freaky thing. The…
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"In 1968 I was in the hole in Soledad State Prison. The hole is a place where you go to make noise and scream and yell. So it’s always noisy. And this song came on – Hey Jude, don’t be afraid . . . the hole got quiet! And quieter. And quieter. Pretty soon, all you heard…
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"For a white kid in middle class suburbia, being a rock‘n’roll star is a dream, an escape. And the Beatles did it for me. When I saw them on Ed Sullivan, I said this is it man, this is what I’ve got to do. I want to be a Beatle."
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@deesnider
#Beatles
#DeeSnider
#TwistedSister
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"We all watched the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, and it was on a Sunday. Now, dig this man: the next day – Monday – I go to school and I'm sitting in the cafeteria and there’s two guys sitting next to me and we can't hear each other 'cause it's so loud. The guy sitting next…
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This must have seemed laughable, even delusional, in '65 when rock and roll was thought of as transient pap. And yet Brian wasn't the only one. Derek Taylor, in the liner notes to Beatles For Sale in late '64, made the same crazy claim: "When, in a generation or so, a…
"I tell you, Larry, there is no other band, there will never be any band like them ever, for eternity. They are the best, I say to you Larry, here in 1965, that the children of 2000 will be listening to the Beatles. And I sincerely mean that.”
—Brian Epstein
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"Greatest artist of all time? The Beatles."
--Biz Markie
#TheBiz
#BizMarkie
#JustAFriend
#HipHop
#TheBeatles
#GOAT
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"I read somewhere that empathy is part genetic. That some people are genetically wired to have more empathy than others. So, it may be predisposed – but I think it’s also taught. And I can go back and say that my empathy 'muscle' was worked out by Beatles songs. Things like…
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"My model for business is the Beatles. They were four very talented guys who kept each other’s negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other; the total was greater than the sum of the parts. And that's how I see business: great things are never done by one person,…
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"The Beatles are as precious as an antique and yet still fresh. You constantly use them as reference in studios when you’re making records. We recorded a version of Come Together in Abbey Road and made the mistake of A/B’ing it with their recording. People would kill to be…
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"They wrote every song. We’re basically rewriting all their songs, is what we’re doing. How can you be in music and not be a Beatles fan?"
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#MelissaEtheridge
#Songwriters
@metheridge
#TheBeatles
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"To hear a song titled 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' – a musician saying his musical instrument is crying - I thought, oh my gosh: musical instruments are extensions of human emotions. And it brought an entire other dimension to my appreciation not only of pop music, but jazz…
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"'Give Me Love' is like a little prayer. It’s extremely syncopated and the phrasing was typical of George. George played the guitar and sang live, which is unheard of today. It was just the most magical . . . I’ve told friends this over the years, when we talk about George:…
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"To be able to churn out two albums like Rubber Soul and Revolver in a year’s time is awe-inspiring to a musician. These boys weren’t wasting any time, were they? What strikes me most about Rubber Soul is the feeling that it was 'time to make an album, boys.' As if the Beatles…
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"The reason I love Meet The Beatles is because of its energy, its idealism, its innocence and its fun. It’s impossible to listen to without smiling from beginning to end. Pure, unadulterated joy. People know me as a blues guy, but I’m a Beatle-fuckin’-maniac. To this day they…
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"I was walking home from junior high school, and I’m walking by this place called The Sugar Shack and they had a speaker outside. I remember the DJ said, 'This is the Beatles’ new song, I Am The Walrus.' And I stood there . . . and I melted. I just thought it was the greatest…
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"If you're not listening to the Beatles, you're not listening to music. If you don't educate yourself on the Beatles . . . whether you're a fan or a musician, there's nothing better."
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@Scott_Ian
#Anthrax
#ScottIan
#Metal
#Thrash
#TheBeatles
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"We loved everything the Beatles did. I mean, I would stop whatever I was doing, anywhere, to hear a new Beatles track. I really would. I almost fell out in an early period with my wife, by saying 'I’ve got to watch, they’re televising Magical Mystery Tour,' and she was just…
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"God, I'm a Beatle obsessive."
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@ThomYorke
#Radiohead
#ThomYorke
#Songwriters
#Influencers
#TheBeatles
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"Look, to me it’s the greatest body of recorded music in history. I think the world would be a much better place if the Beatles were still around and making music for us."
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@NilsLofgren
#HallOfFame
#NilsLofgren
#Guitar
#Grin
#Springsteeen
#CrazyHorse
#TheBeatles
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"Beatles records are almost irreducible, because it’s not just the great song; it’s also the great tone of voice, the great guitar part, the great guitar sound, the great drum sound, the type of beat Ringo played. They didn’t just write songs, they wrote records, you know. That…
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"The Beatles were God-like figures to us. They were in a strata so far beyond us that they were out of our league."
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@NickMasonDrums
#PinkFloyd
#NickMason
#TheBeatles
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"I was at Tuskegee University, an all-black community, and EVERYONE was watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Before, I only listened to Motown and Stax. I thought, 'this is a phenomenon.' They changed so many things, they really led us."
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@LionelRichie
#Beatles
#EdSullivan
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"I think that, now, we can talk about the Beatles as 'classical' writers and singers."
--Charles Aznavour
#Songwriting
#Chanson
#Icon
#CharlesAznavour
#TheBeatles
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"You know, I was such a big Beatles fan. When I'd buy a new Beatles album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it, 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that."
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#AndyPartridge
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"Fats loved the Beatles. Because we all loved the Beatles. I mean, what a sensation they brought to the music business. You know, if it wasn’t for the Crescent City [New Orleans] there would be nothing, and if it wasn’t for the Beatles, Fats Domino and people like myself would…
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"We had been fighting for two and a half years to get me out of prison and convince the authorities that my cause was just. John Lennon came and played at my rally - and I got out of prison three days later. He was a sweet guy, regular and down to earth. He was an…
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"The Beatles were the marriage of rock and roll and beauty."
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#AlecBaldwin
#Emmys
#GoldenGlobes
#HABF
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"We wanted to put a twist on things, 'cause the whole album [In Search of...] is not really a hip-hop album. It's more like a mixture of different things. And the last great group that we remember that's just musical . . . the musical Gods to me, and us, is the Beatles."…
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"I went to sessions by the Who, I went to a lot of Stones’ sessions, but the most fascinating were the Beatles’ sessions. They were doing things that really hadn’t been done before. They were looking forward like nobody else."
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@Faithfull_M
#MarianneFaithfull
#TheBeatles
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"What the Beatles did was move way beyond the narrow confines of what was possible with rock music, and make music for infinity."
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#BobGeldof
#BoomtownRats
#BandAid
#LiveAid
#Live8
#TheBeatles
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December 8, 1980:
"A plunge into unreality, or at least into the area where comprehension slips and the world seems an orderless swirl of disconnected, arbitrary events. How does such a thing happen? How do I, on this grubby station platform in northwest London, begin to…
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"Rubber Soul just took hold of me, unlocked something in my imagination that I had never experienced in popular music. I can remember it so vividly. I couldn’t resist it. It was like a tidal wave of enthusiasm, ideas, and alternatives. You just had to take part in it, and before…
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"You know, you get theme songs in your life that just kind of come up over and over again and you think about them . . . and this is the one that almost always comes up for me, 'The Fool On The Hill.' I really love this song, I think it has a very ancient wisdom. It sort of…
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"There is a good deal of strangeness to much of the Beatles’ music and of course an undisputed universality. There is an immediacy and integrity to their songs that draws everyone in and cuts across cultural and generational lines."
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@bradmehldau
#Jazz
#BradMehldau
#Beatles
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"The Beatles conquered the world on talent and their absolute uniqueness...they changed the way we spoke, thought and had our lives and country perceived."
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#AndrewLoogOldham
, manager of the Rolling Stones
@loogoldham
#Stones
#Beatles
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"I think I’d like to go out to 'Across The Universe' by the Beatles. I like the feeling that I’m dissipating [laughs] into the stars. And I also like the idea that when I’m gone the Beatles will still be around – as long as that’s happened, I won’t mind too much about leaving…
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"The Beatles were like a revelation . . . the whole world lit up. Suddenly I felt, like, 'I could be friends with them.' And I’m black! But I never thought of them really as white guys; they were the Beatles – they were colorless, you know. And they were fucking amazing."…
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"If we could figure out a way to end war, the first step would probably be talking about the Beatles. Because I don’t care where you’re from or how old you are, we're just human beings and when we hear music that moves us – it’s human to be moved, and the Beatles just continue to…
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"At the end of the day it's really not about success, but sustained success. I can say with certainty that it will be a while, if ever, before we know who belongs in the same breath as Lennon/McCartney."
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@PaulStanleyLive
#KISS
#PaulStanley
#JohnAndPaul
#TheBeatles
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"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."
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#StevenSoderbergh
#Film
#Oscar
#Director
#TheBeatles
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"Eleanor Rigby I think used two string quartets. I mean, I always thought it was just a perfect song, one of the great songs. It belongs in there among, I might get yelled at by some classical musicians, along there with Schubert and Mozart. The richness of the harmonies, the…
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"Firstly, the Beatles are my favorite all-time group. I tried to pattern some of my ideas on them, I admit it. I also patterned myself on James Brown and Sly, by the way. But the Beatles had such tremendous spiritual power. What made the Beatles so good, they could do…
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"I think that because I was too young to be caught up in Beatlemania, when I did hear them I heard them objectively, if you like. And I was just so astounded by their musical quality. I mean, every track! And something like 'Walrus,' it's still so contemporary. I mean, there…
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Let us now praise
@PaulMcCartney
, who turns 81 today, June 18
#TheBeatles
#PeteTownshend
@TheWho
#HappyBirthdayPaulMcCartney
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"It’s obvious that Paul McCartney and John Lennon may be the greatest rock and roll singers that we’ve ever had. I honestly believe that. They are great, great singers. They can do anything with their voices."
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#PhilSpector
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"Those guys are so fantastic, so far advanced in what they wrote, it’s just incredible. I think the music of the Beatles had a phenomenal effect upon the whole world."
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@algreen
#TheReverend
#Soul
#RandB
#AlGreen
#TheBeatles
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"I think that so many bands and singers and songwriters were influenced by the Beatles - their beautiful harmony, and the way they opened up the possibilities of a pop song, to make it almost . . . operettic. Something bigger - but within the length of a song. Such a…
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"The Beatles were a great influence on us. Not only were they a great group, they were writing, they were being innovative. 'Let’s do one like I Want To Hold Your Hand' – they didn’t do that, they kept everything different. They broke a lot of rules and they created an…
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"I stand in total awe of the Beatles. I don’t think their greatness can be overstated. To me, they’re bigger than music: they changed the mindset of an entire generation and brought about a revolution without ever having to fire a shot. Because it was a revolution of the mind,…
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"The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was the Beatles. They were able to change album to album, and still be just as good or better. The Beatles were in a class by themselves."
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#JohnnyRamone
#Punk
#TheRamones
@RamonesOfficial
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Extreme metal legend Tom Gabriel Fischer (
@TomGWarrior
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#CelticFrost
#Tryptikon
#TheBeatles
#LetUsNowPraise
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December 8, 1980:
"When he was shot, I was so devastated, I stayed in bed for a week. I was in the studio when I heard; I just dropped the phone—it broke my heart. I always think of John Lennon every time I’m in the recording studio. I can’t help it. He’s my spirit talking to…
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"In times of tragedy, it is to the poets and the artists we turn. The Beatles were, and still are, the best friends this planet ever had."
--Donovan
#DonovanLeitch
#TheBeatles
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"The Beatles influenced everybody. I don't care if you are Cannibal Corpse. Everyone in rock & roll has to give credit to the Beatles. Any band, then or now, needs to sit down and dissect Beatles songs to learn how to write."
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@alicecooper
#AliceCooper
#Songwriter
#Beatles
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"George Harrison was probably one of the most creative people I’ve ever met. He used to play me songs he was working on and it was amazing. This was after the Beatles split up and I thought, “wow, how privileged I am to be witnessing this great genius here playing these…
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"It was a very shared thing. The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show was discussed endlessly for months after that, how each person had their own experience with it. That just changed the world, you know. That was on a Sunday night, and Monday morning nothing was the same."…
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"Within You Without You is utterly unique, and an example of original thinking on the part of George Harrison: a fusion of Indian classical music with rock and roll. He’s the first person to ever try anything like that, and he pulled it off brilliantly. Again, it's just really…
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"I love John and Paul’s writing. But
#GeorgeHarrison
’s music speaks to me the most. Something in the way his music moves . . . the harmonic centering; his playing; when I listen to George Harrison’s music I feel like he’s trying to connect with me personally. Plus he was a…
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"The Beatles were from an era when certainly playing was important to them, and they were cutting edge. But for all time, they're master composers. When I go back and hear how the songs were arranged, especially considering the generation I'm from - the Led Zeppelin/Van Halen,…
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"I will go to my grave claiming that if Paul McCartney had only written Martha My Dear, he would still be a great songwriter."
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@MJMcKean
#MichaelMcKean
#SpinalTap
#BetterCallSaul
#Macca
#MarthaMyDear
#OldEnglishSheepdog
#TheBeatles
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"You know, John Lennon had such an incisive point of view and a way of capturing what was going on with 5 or 10 words, or one sharp line that didn’t need to be fleshed out. I once asked him, 'What do you think of what I do? What do you think of glam-rock?' He said, 'Aww now,…
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"The Beatles on Ed Sullivan was like a combination of religion and music and I don't know what else. The clocked stopped for me; everything stopped. It was probably one of the milestones in human history. Scientists call them singularities. They happen once in a while and…
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"Most bands build an album around the singles and then put in some fillers. The Beatles’ singles didn’t even appear on many of the albums! Equally, you could have used many of their album tracks as singles. It’s crazy that they didn’t. I still listen to their music, I have…
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"When the Beatles came on Ed Sullivan, on the left side of the couch was me; on the right side of the couch was my younger brother Marvin; and in between us was Jimi Hendrix. Ed Sullivan said, 'Ladies and gentleman, the Beatles!' . . . and after that there was a meeting with all…
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"An amazing message and lyric, delivered in an incredible melody and driven by a bad a** beat."
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@BrunoMars
on Come Together
#BrunoMars
#SilkSonic
#TheBeatles
#AbbeyRoad
#ComeTogether
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"They were just stunning." The late, great Greg Lake saw the Beatles live in 1963, before they came to America. 50 years later, he was still amazed at what he saw.
#ELP
#KingCrimson
#TheBeatles
#LetUsNowPraise
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"I love melodies, I was brought up trained as a classical pianist. If you’ve got a beautiful melody, you can play and do variations on them; it’s something that composers have been doing for centuries with their peers. Haydn did it with Mozart. I loved doing that, I was…
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"I always loved 'And Your Bird Can Sing' and always felt I could do something cool with it. The degree of guitar difficulty didn't come into my mind. I just love the song, the way it progresses. The Beatles were amazing. There's another song of theirs, 'Dear Prudence' - man,…
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"I was part of a welcoming army of journalists who were equipped with an arsenal of poison pens and whose intentions were to skewer the Beatles if at all possible. We were there to burst the Beatles’ bubble if we could, to debunk the Beatles’ stardom, to find an excuse to mock…
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"Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields Forever" -- perhaps the greatest single ever issued, released today in 1967.
#Beatles
#OnThisDay
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"It was December and I was just visiting as I often did, we were watching TV, and the doorbell rang. John said can you check it out and see who’s at the door. They have a double door in the Dakota, there’s a lot of security up there . . . so I open the inside door to the…
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"When I would be on the road I had a phonograph with a Gerard turntable and two KLH speakers and a briefcase full of Beatle records."
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@JoseFeliciano
"You can come in my hotel room most times and I'll have the TV on, the record player playing, the radio on and I'll be…
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"'The Fool on the Hill' is a beautiful song -- haunting, melodic, transcendental, magical, extraordinary."
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@AnnieLennox
#Eurythmics
#AnnieLennox
#TheBeatles
#FoolOnTheHill
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"From the Beatles I learned the crafts of songwriting, lyricism, arranging, and production and taught myself to play guitar, bass, drums, piano, even cello. They were, for me, the whole library of music education."
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@THEadrianbelew
#Beatles
#AdrianBelew
#Zappa
#KingCrimson
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"Having the Beatles in the world can feel pretty daunting for a musician. Everyone doing what I do knows that the world already has the Beatles . . . but that doesn't deter us. Far from it. The Beatles are a shining beacon for every musician to steer toward. They built…
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"I think the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show kind of defined the start of the Sixties."
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@alyankovic
#OnThisDay
#TheBeatles
#EdSullivan
#WeirdAl
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"Thank you to the Beatles for all of the music, all of the inspiration, all of the moments where you're sitting there and nothing can console you other than music, but particularly this music. It finds its way into your soul and makes you feel better when nothing else will."…
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"People have taken popular music today and nearly made it into an art form. That’s really what the Beatles have done."
--Charlie Watts
#RollingStones
#CharlieWatts
#TheBeatles
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"The Beatles have influenced everything that I’ve ever done. They made fun an art form."
--Mike Myers
#WaynesWorld
#AustinPowers
#Comedy
#Film
#MikeMyers
#TheBeatles
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"The Beatles, they were geniuses, you know? Music’s like a sign language between people. When a guy from Iran or America hears the Beatles, they go 'Wow!' They don’t think of killing each other."
--Jeff Buckley
#Grace
#JeffBuckley
#TheBeatles
#Peace
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"I was there at Kennedy Airport when the Beatles arrived. I’ll never forget the sight of hundreds of boys, high school students, running down a hallway at the international arrivals building with their combs out, converting their ducktail hairdos into bangs. They’d just seen…
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"As a songwriter you’re inspired by other songs. I am a firm believer that the opening line of a song is so important, and perhaps the best opening line of any song ever in my mind was ‘I once had a girl/or should I say/she once had me.’ When John sang that, it slayed me. It tore…
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