Are they really that influential to artist outside of their era...

I have no idea where he's getting those quotes.

Wow, who cares.

>“They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid. You could only do that with other musicians. Even if you’re playing your own chords you had to have other people playing with you. That was obvious. And it started me thinking about other people.
>“But I just kept it to myself that I really dug them. Everybody else thought they were for the teenyboppers, that they were gonna pass right away. But it was obvious to me that they had staying power. I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go. I was not about to put up with other musicians, but in my head the Beatles were it. In Colorado, I started thinking it was so far out that I couldn’t deal with it — eight in the Top Ten. It seemed to me a definite line was being drawn. This was something that never happened before. It was outrageous, and I kept it in my mind. You see, there was a lot of hypocrisy all around, people saying it had to be either folk or rock. But I knew it didn’t have to be like that. I dug what the Beatles were doing, and I always kept it in mind from back then.”
>"They were fantastic singers. Lennon, to this day, it’s hard to find a better singer than Lennon was, or than McCartney was and still is."
>"I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless."
-Bob Dylan

>"The Beatles were why we turned from a jug band into a rock 'n' roll band," said Bob Weir. "What we saw them doing was impossibly attractive. I couldn't think of anything else more worth doing"
-Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead

Did you try looking them up?

you are cringe and bringing up literal whos to defend your soishit band. have fun listening to a person who thinks Billie Eilish is a real genuine artist

Try and understand that nothing on the American charts in 63-64 sounded like that.

>Bob Dylan and Mic Jagger are literal whos
Imagine believing this

>have fun listening to a person who thinks Billie Eilish is a real genuine artist
Why isn't she?

>muh shitty artists

What's shitty about them?

This is what i got.

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if i have to explain why Bob Dylan and Mic Jagger are cringe then i can't help you.

stop smoking weed, listen to the Beach Boys

is this an exclusive $20 beatles documentary DVD that you paid for? very impressive, can't find it anywhere else
here's the mental capabilities of your average beaters fan, kek

What would you consider good music?

>implies Billie Eilish sucks
>"dUrr wHaT dO U tHinK iS gOoD mUsIC tHeN?"
Yas Forums - Music

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>“I really wasn’t quite ready for the unity. It felt like it all belonged together. Rubber Soul was a collection of songs…that somehow went together like no album ever made before".
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys

Not an argument

doesn't have to be one. lol

cringe

>They were real important to everybody. They were a little model, especially the movies – the movies were a big turn-on. Just because it was a little model of good times. The Fifties were sure hurting for good times. And the early Sixties were very serious too – Kennedy and everything. And the Beatles were light and having a good time and they were good too, so it was a combination that was very satisfying on the artistic level, which is part of the scene that I was into – the art school thing and all that. The conscious thing of the artistic world, the Beatles were accomplished in all that stuff. It was like saying, “You can be young, you can be far out, and you can still make it.” They were making people happy. That happy thing – that’s the stuff that counts – something that we could all see right away.
- Jerry Garcia

>"As I said, we were influenced by The Beatles, and we wanted to be a band like that, and when I was working with Bobby Darin, and then in the Brill Building, my job was to listen to the radio, and emulate the songs that were out there. I had already been working on mixing The Beatles’ music with folk music in Greenwich Village, and I had noticed that they were using folk-influenced chords in their music. They used passing chords that were not common in rock’n’roll and pop songs of that time. I remember listening to them, and thinking that the Beatles were using folding chord construction. That comes from their skiffle roots, they will have learned those chords in their skiffle days, and just brought them into their own writing.”
-Roger McGuinn of the Byrds

>"But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music".
-singer/songwriter Barry McGuire

>"So much of their song writing was from an era where songs were truly songs, that's why so many jazz artists have recorded Beatles tunes. Melodies, chord changes, and actual song structure. Because of that their songs will last forever because many of them are not trendy and time period based".
-Jazz musician Brian Bromberg

>"When I heard "Revolution," "A Long and Winding Road," and "Let it Be" I realized they were the first examples of pop-fusion music. The Beatles fused melodicism and harmony with the spirit of rock and roll. I was writing songs at an early age, so I incorporated this 'fusion' in my compositions. They paved the way for experimentation in the studio—whether it's Lennon doing a vocal track lying on the floor to create a different sound, they just let it be. When I'm in the studio, I keep that spirit of experimentation. Whatever goes!
>I see their body of work mirror the arc of great jazz musicians. Their music changed from song to song and record to record. The Fab Four has inspired me to keep high standards of creativity with every project that I undertake".
-Jazz musician John Beasley

>Can's early rock influences include The Beatles and The Velvet Underground
Unterberger, Richie (1997), An Interview With Holger Czukay, Krautrock.com, retrieved 2010-06-16
> Initially Holger Czukay had little interest in rock music, but this changed, when a student played him The Beatles' 1967 song "I Am the Walrus", a 1967 psychedelic rock single with an unusual musical structure and blasts of AM radio noise.[5] This opened his ears to music by rock experimentalists such as the Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa.
"can - publications". Czukay.de. Retrieved 2011-07-06.

>the Velvets really weren't as contrary characters as legend sometimes has it, or immune to musical influences from fellow bands. In various interviews and writings from 1967 to 1970, various members express admiration for the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Kinks, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Phil Spector, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Byrds, and even Bob Dylan.
Richie Unterberger, White Light/White Heat: The Velevet Underground Day By Day, 2009

“I never liked the Beatles,” Reed said. “I thought they were garbage. If you say, ‘Who did you like?’ I liked nobody.”
"it was worse than stupid rock and roll. What I mean by stupid, I mean like The Doors."

>"I actually like two or three of their songs"
-Frank Zappa

>"I actually like two or three of their songs"

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>"They were a driving force in the velvets, and made us work harder and got us on our bikes. Rubber soul was where you were forced to deal with them as something other than a flash in the pan. It was rich in ideas and i loved the way george managed to find a way to include all those indian instruments. Lou and i had tried to work with the sarinda. We were only playing it just to get a noise but i realised you could play melody on the sitar as good as Norwegian wood. Norwegian woond had this atmosphere of being very acid. I don't think anybody has ever got that sound or that feeling as well at the Beatles."
-John Cale

>Shortly after The Velvet Underground & Nico is released, Lou Reed tells Jackson Browne & rock critic Richard Meltzer that his two favorite guitarists are George Harrison & The Byrds' Roger McGuinn. He is later quoted in Lou Reed: Between The Lines as calling the Beatles "the most incredible songwriters ever...I don't think people realize how sad it is that the Beatles broke up"
- "White Heat/White Light" by Richie Unterberger

>Sgt. Pepper influenced everybody, and indeed was one of the arguments I used to keep the band on track (on my track, of course). Zappa was not nearly so influential, whatever his fans would like to think. In those early days he was mostly into being raunchy and offensive, so the band (during the brief time that it was still a "band" as opposed to the later stuff, which was different ensembles) didn't get much play. On the other hand, his broad brand of satire was more accessible than my more insidious (or so I like to think) kind.
- Joseph Byrd, The United States of America

> I remember singing Beatles tunes ... the first song I ever sang in front of people was It Won't Be Long, and then Money (That's What I Want). That was in Calvin High School [Winnipeg] cafeteria. My big moment."
> "I never forgot," he says, "that every time a new Beatles or Dylan album came out, you knew they were way beyond it. They were always doing something else, always moving down the line."
- Neil Young

>"I sang in the school choir and knew how to listen for harmony and counterpoint, and it was clear to me that the Beatles were something extraordinarily clever. It bewildered me that no one else could hear it: impossible harmonies and part playing you had never heard in pop songs before. The Beatles were obviously just putting all this stuff in for some secret fun of their own, and it seemed exciting to me that people could have fun in that way."
-Douglas Adams

Neil Young is too smart for the Beatles. He’s just being nice to them. He feels bad.