#beatle

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#beatles #because #began #business #divide

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#bands #beatles #before #could #end

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#absolutely #always #anything #asked #bands

I translated Beatles songs for my English class. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#beatles songs #class #english #i #songs

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens! ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#drunk #get #happens #incident #look

So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#big #compare #daddy #five #flash

Finally.., The love we take is equal to the love we make...! ↗

— The Beatles

#equality

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. ↗

— George Harrison

#carpe-diem #future #past #present #time

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#purpose-of-art #art

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment; I told them they didn't understand life. ↗

— John Lennon

#happy #john #lennon #life #life