![BeatlesPraise's tweet photo. "At the Peabody [conservatory] I was kicked out because I argued with the establishment that didn’t believe in teaching Beatles music. I wanted them to analyze popular music too. You would look at classical music and jazz, but they refused to acknowledge anything contemporary. I remember being told: 'The Beatles will not be around in 30 years, no one will care,' and I said, 'You’re wrong.' Maybe they thought I was a smart ass, but I was adamant that the Beatles would be around and that this music was really important."
--#ToriAmos
#Prodigy #Piano @ToriAmos #Songwriting #QAwards #GlamourAwards #TheBeatles #Immortality](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_dWENsa8AEVGCX.jpg)
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💔 Cassandra Wilson’s album, “New Moon Daughter” was one of my all time favorites and had a huge influence on my music, especially my first album. 💔 Rest in peace
"I was a huge Beatles fan. I listened to them with absolute, utter focus and attention to every note and every word. I just devoured everything that they came out with, and parsed it and learned it and reinterpreted it. So when it turned out that I got the opportunity, 'Carolina In My Mind' says 'With a holy host of others standing round me'. That's how I thought of the Beatles. Everybody did.
"It was such a powerful thing, being a part of that generation — the music that was associated with it, the revolution in FM radio, the way we basically communicated and sort of self-identified through the music. And the fact that the Beatles continued to grow and carry us through it . . . you know, it was just — it was amazing.
"Their music has a permanent place in the popular culture. It’s exciting on so many different levels. It’s definitely Western music, but it incorporates Indian music — I mean, that incorporation, you know, the entire culture was exposed to that at a certain point because of them. They had a huge and deep impact on us all.
"And it doesn’t go away. They pass it on. I know that I refer daily, in my playing and my writing and my improvising, to the Beatles."
--#JamesTaylor
#JT #SweetBabyJames @JamesTaylor_com #Grammys #HallOfFame #MedalOfFreedom #Songwriters #TheBeatles #Culture #Influence
Sources: Interview with Paul Zollo, 2017; SiriusXM, 2017; BBC, 2010
"When the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, it was probably one of the milestones in human history. There are what scientists call singularities. They happen every once in a while and have a quantum effect on life as we know it on the face of the planet. When the Beatles first appeared, it really changed the world.
"The clocked stopped for me; everything stopped. It was like in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the apes went up to the monolith and touched it: a quantum leap forward. It changed my sense of being. I mean, it was close to a religious experience.
"It was spiritual music. It was a gentle prodding to open up your eyes. They weren’t heavy-handed about it. They put a spotlight on a point of view. I mean, if they had run for Kings of the World, I’m sure they would’ve been voted in. Lennon was really right, you know — about being more popular than Christ. No question about it. It was a new way of thinking, that’s what it was.
"Let’s be honest here. I couldn’t shine Lennon and McCartney’s boots. I couldn’t shine George Harrison’s boots when it comes to songwriting. They're bigger than Gershwin, bigger than all of ‘em.
"I don’t fool myself. To me, they were the most important band that has ever existed. End of story. Everybody else can KISS their boot-heels, including me. The rest of us have just been playing catch-up ever since."
--#GeneSimmons
#KISS @genesimmons #HardRock #HallOfFame #Songwriting #TheBeatles #Influence #GOAT
Sources: Entertainment Weekly, 1999; Guitar International, 2010
Ach, Jacques Wallage is niet meer. Volbloed sociaal democraat. Aimabel en bevlogen, schreef ons om de wereld te helen zachte en scherpe observaties. זכרונו לברכה
Arrigo Sacchi a acheté une page dans la Gazzetta dello Sport du jour pour rendre hommage à Franco #Baresi : “Il n’y a qu’un seul capitaine. À mon extraordinaire Capitaine, dernier rempart héroïque sur le terrain et premier exemple inégalable pour tous, avec une immense affection et une profonde reconnaissance.”
"When I started playing guitar I revisited a lot of Beatles stuff, and I started to understand more about their songwriting skills and who they were as players — stuff you don’t normally get into the technicalities of when you’re listening to music. But as a guitar player, I started to appreciate them for just being great songwriters and really, really innovative musicians.
"I was actually just listening to Abbey Road today. I was heavily influenced by that record. You know 'I Want You (She’s So Heavy)'? That had a huge influence on me, as far as where I come from as a musician.
"You sort of picture the Beatles as putting up a canvas and going through all these different kinds of painting styles when it comes to how they recorded and how they approached different songs. There’s a certain artistry to it that you don’t hear in a lot of contemporary records. It’s an art form. The Beatles gave us so many different textures, and so many different directions.
"Pretty much all my contemporaries have a thing for the Beatles, like, really hard-core Beatles fans . . . I think one of the reasons why the Beatles are the standard for songwriting is that, as experimental as they might have sounded, the notes they chose just seem totally perfect.
"They had such a major, major influence on music as it stands right this second. And I think that a hundred, two hundred years from now they will still have that sort of influence, on Western music at least."
--#Slash
#GunsNRoses #GNR #VelvetRevolver #HardRock #Guitarist #HallOfFame #TheBeatles #Influence #Songwriting #Musicianship #GOAT
Source: "Here There and Everywhere," 3-part radio special, November 2009
It's Charlie's birthday! Missing him!
Geniale tenorsaxofonist Sonny Rollins (1930-2026) bleef hele leven geplaagd door onzekerheid
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"The one that really got me was Rubber Soul, which came out at the end of 1965. Rubber Soul is probably the greatest record ever.
"It came out in December of 1965 and sent me right to the piano bench. It’s a whole album of Beatles folk songs, a whole album where everything flows together and everything works. I said, 'How could they possibly make an album where the songs all sound like they come from the same place.' I couldn't deal with it. It blew my mind. It wasn’t just the lyrics and the melodies but the production and their harmonies. They had such unique harmonies, you know? [It was] almost art music . . . I thought, 'Damn it, I've got to do that. I've got to try that with the Beach Boys.'
"You could hear their ideas so clearly in their music. They didn’t pose like some other bands. They were great poets about simple things, and that also made it easier to hear the song. And they never did anything clumsy. It was like perfect pitch, but for entire songs. Everything landed on its feet.
"Pet Sounds is a good album, but not the best. I think Rubber Soul is still the best album of all time. Maybe other people consider me a genius, but I don’t, not on their level."
--#BrianWilson
#Genius #BeachBoys #HallOfFame #Songwriter #TheBeatles #RubberSoul #Inspiration #GOAT
![BeatlesPraise's tweet photo. "The one that really got me was Rubber Soul, which came out at the end of 1965. Rubber Soul is probably the greatest record ever.
"It came out in December of 1965 and sent me right to the piano bench. It’s a whole album of Beatles folk songs, a whole album where everything flows together and everything works. I said, 'How could they possibly make an album where the songs all sound like they come from the same place.' I couldn't deal with it. It blew my mind. It wasn’t just the lyrics and the melodies but the production and their harmonies. They had such unique harmonies, you know? [It was] almost art music . . . I thought, 'Damn it, I've got to do that. I've got to try that with the Beach Boys.'
"You could hear their ideas so clearly in their music. They didn’t pose like some other bands. They were great poets about simple things, and that also made it easier to hear the song. And they never did anything clumsy. It was like perfect pitch, but for entire songs. Everything landed on its feet.
"Pet Sounds is a good album, but not the best. I think Rubber Soul is still the best album of all time. Maybe other people consider me a genius, but I don’t, not on their level."
--#BrianWilson
#Genius #BeachBoys #HallOfFame #Songwriter #TheBeatles #RubberSoul #Inspiration #GOAT](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFfOgfHXoAELqCX.jpg)
"A Beatles record still sounded really fresh the second week that you were listening to it. And that’s a hard thing to do because there are a lot of artists that for five days that record sounded great, and after five days you don’t want to hear it anymore.
"I played on the same bill as them once, at the Royal Command Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. It was the one where John said, 'The people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you’d just rattle your jewellery’. I was conducting the orchestra for Marlene Dietrich.
"I’ve never seen a band quite like them that night. There was something about them, it’s hard to explain. I’ve never forgotten it. These four English guys who were on their way somewhere that not even they knew.
"They were unique. I mean, unique."
--#BurtBacharach
#Composer #Grammys #Oscars #Emmys #GershwinPrize #Influencers #Songwriters #TheBeatles
"I was in love with the Beatles. I was a real Beatle fanatic. When I was with Miles [Davis], I had an apartment in New York with a Beatles poster up on my wall. When you walked in the front door, it was staring you right in the face. People would come to visit and they’d see this poster and say, 'Man, why you got that on your wall?' You know, here I am supposed to be this 'jazzer' and I’m listening to the Beatles.
"It’s the tunes, the music, the whole thing. In ‘65, I told Miles we oughtta do a tour with the Beatles; we oughtta open up for them.
"Even now, when I listen to some of that stuff, it connects with me."
--#TonyWilliams
#Jazz #Fusion #Drums #MilesDavis #Lifetime #HallsOfFame #TheBeatles
![BeatlesPraise's tweet photo. "I was in love with the Beatles. I was a real Beatle fanatic. When I was with Miles [Davis], I had an apartment in New York with a Beatles poster up on my wall. When you walked in the front door, it was staring you right in the face. People would come to visit and they’d see this poster and say, 'Man, why you got that on your wall?' You know, here I am supposed to be this 'jazzer' and I’m listening to the Beatles.
"It’s the tunes, the music, the whole thing. In ‘65, I told Miles we oughtta do a tour with the Beatles; we oughtta open up for them.
"Even now, when I listen to some of that stuff, it connects with me."
--#TonyWilliams
#Jazz #Fusion #Drums #MilesDavis #Lifetime #HallsOfFame #TheBeatles](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFuCEn2WQAEI-RA.jpg)
David Gilmour credits The Beatles for shaping his guitar playing. 🎸👇
#HappyBirthdayGeorgeHarrison #OnThisDay
"The first time I really heard George Harrison play a solo, I realized how gifted he was. He could play eight bars that nobody in the world but him would have thought of; you realized that there was a kind of genius at work there. Those solos were constructed like mini masterpieces.
"I loved his inventiveness, things such as using the volume knob to create the guitar sound you can hear in 'I Need You.' I never heard anyone do that before. There were no pedals to do that at that time, so I was going, how the hell do you do that? I mean, the amount of thought that went into those little parts.
"He didn’t just show off, he actually thought about what he was going to play, then composed something unique that became part of the song. The introduction to 'Here Comes The Sun' is one example, and another is the 'Hard Day’s Night' solo. That one is actually very fast for its time.
"He was a great melodic influence, personally as a guitarist; he was very strong on melody. If I hadn’t started to play around the time I did, I don’t think I’d have such a melodic background. I wouldn’t have that sense of melody if it wasn’t for George.
"He was a very underrated player, because there were a lot of flash guitarists coming around in the Sixties — you know, people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix. But what he managed to do was construct these beautiful little pieces of music within the song, which became part of the song. And that is a really great guitarist, to my mind. It’s all very well to play a flash solo, but if you can play a solo that then becomes part of the song and enhances the song, that’s the real gift."
--#GaryMoore #Blues #HardRock #ThinLizzy
#TheBeatles #GeorgeHarrison #Influence
"I look back to the Beatles. McCartney really led me down the path to melodic bass playing. Even though I was doing it at the time, he really put a stamp on it. I sit and listen to his bass parts, and I still sit in awe of the thought process that went into them. I mean, they are so exquisite — on every song they ever did. You know, in the old days, people would argue about who was the better guitar player, Hendrix or Clapton. As bass players go, McCartney had a major impact on me. His melodic sense has always been staggering. To me, the bass on all the Beatles records is just unbelievable.
"But all of those guys, that was a unique band. The Beatles had an impact that’s really hard to describe, because it came from so many directions. You were really being hit with so much by those guys. When you listen back to Beatles songs, it’s just the wealth of information — as a player, you can just glean from them, every day. I lived in headphones listening to those guys play. And I’ve always just aspired to it. I love that whole period."
--#LelandSklar
#Icon #Bass #Studio #TheSection #TheBeatles #PaulMcCartney #Influence
"Kids in England were thinking for themselves. They were beginning to build up their own ideas about fashion and build up their own ideas about music, instead of copying and doing everything from the States. And the first thing, I think, was the Beatles influence, which I remember as a big lift in this country. When the Beatles arrived with their sound and their image and their humor and everything, from then on a thousand different things arose. And the Beatles, coming through as big as they were, enlarged this respect of what could be called good music, rather than sort of the empty stuff that had been going 'round before. And people in London started to like rhythm and blues, which is essentially a form of good music. The pattern had been set by the Beatles and then you could vary from there.
"If the Beatles hadn’t happened, I don’t think I’d even be in a group, for a start. I wouldn’t be thinking the way I am now, I wouldn’t be eating the same food, or anything.
"Four guys can have that kind of influence."
--#PeteTownshend
#TheWho #RockAndRoll #Rock #HallOfFame #TheBeatles #Influence #Impact
"At the Peabody [conservatory] I was kicked out because I argued with the establishment that didn’t believe in teaching Beatles music. I wanted them to analyze popular music too. You would look at classical music and jazz, but they refused to acknowledge anything contemporary. I remember being told: 'The Beatles will not be around in 30 years, no one will care,' and I said, 'You’re wrong.' Maybe they thought I was a smart ass, but I was adamant that the Beatles would be around and that this music was really important."
--#ToriAmos
#Prodigy #Piano @ToriAmos #Songwriting #QAwards #GlamourAwards #TheBeatles #Immortality
![BeatlesPraise's tweet photo. "At the Peabody [conservatory] I was kicked out because I argued with the establishment that didn’t believe in teaching Beatles music. I wanted them to analyze popular music too. You would look at classical music and jazz, but they refused to acknowledge anything contemporary. I remember being told: 'The Beatles will not be around in 30 years, no one will care,' and I said, 'You’re wrong.' Maybe they thought I was a smart ass, but I was adamant that the Beatles would be around and that this music was really important."
--#ToriAmos
#Prodigy #Piano @ToriAmos #Songwriting #QAwards #GlamourAwards #TheBeatles #Immortality](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_dWJ1UbIAALDK7.jpg)
#OnThisDay, December 8, 1980.
"I had gone up to write alone in New Hampshire — to get in touch with my insides. Then, when I heard the news, it was almost too much for my insides to handle. It ripped out a piece of me — I don’t know how to say it any other way. I was so angry for so long. I was physically angry for years after that fucker shot him."
--#StevenTyler #Aerosmith
"It was just unfathomable. I went into this state of shock that lasted a long time. I couldn’t think."
--#MarshallCrenshaw
"Someone called the studio from New York and said, 'John’s dead.' It just stopped the session. I went home, and on the way I could see people sitting in their cars at traffic lights crying. It hurt for so long, it fucked me up. I still have trouble believing it."
--#TomPetty #Heartbreakers
"I was shattered. I was totally fucked up when he was killed. I didn’t work hardly for a good year or two. I was not even interested in playing music. Everything that came along and everything I heard just seemed like an imitation."
--#AndyNewmark #Drums #DoubleFantasy
"We were just in mourning, really; just inconsolable. The world was devastated. It was a horrible, horrible time. It hit me so hard personally . . . I was in a state for weeks."
--#SusannaHoffs #Bangles
"I remember burying myself in the studio. I didn’t even want to look at the sun. I thought I was hallucinating for a good six months. Not a good six months, a bad six months. I mean, I just flipped out."
--#JackDouglas #Producer
#Grief #OnThisDay #JohnLennon #Lennon #TheBeatles #Influence
Six decades on, and there’s never a bad time to press play on #RubberSoul
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