All Quotes

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
‐‐ Gavyn Davies

The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.
‐‐ Lynne Reid Banks

The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
‐‐ Gavyn Davies

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
‐‐ Gavyn Davies

The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.
‐‐ Pauline Neville-Jones

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
‐‐ Gavyn Davies

The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.
‐‐ David Icke

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.
‐‐ Georgie Fame

The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you are against us.'
‐‐ Graham Norton

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.
‐‐ Mike Love

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.
‐‐ Dennis Wilson

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them.
‐‐ Brian Wilson

The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We're very blessed.
‐‐ Mike Love

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.
‐‐ Behati Prinsloo

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.
‐‐ Tony Kornheiser

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
‐‐ Ben Nicholson

The beast is not dead.
‐‐ Heather O'Rourke

The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

The Beat Generation - that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the '70s. Hype is built and established and people link it back to a certain generation, in this case the '40s and '50s. Now everyone knows that that group was the Beat Generation.
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.
‐‐ Doug Liman

The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.
‐‐ Eliza Doolittle

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
‐‐ Ryan Tedder

The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.
‐‐ Bob Spitz

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'
‐‐ Jon Landau

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
‐‐ Billy Preston

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.
‐‐ Chris Squire

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.
‐‐ Joe Perry

The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.
‐‐ Joe Perry

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.
‐‐ Evan Rachel Wood

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.
‐‐ Jon Landau

The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.'
‐‐ Peter Jackson

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.
‐‐ Jon Landau

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
‐‐ Colin Mochrie

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
‐‐ George Harrison

The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
‐‐ Davy Jones

The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.
‐‐ Bob Spitz

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
‐‐ Brian Wilson

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
‐‐ Yoko Ono