I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.
If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.
I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison.