Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.
Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.
I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.
I never saw The Beatles live. I was very aware of them, though.
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'
I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.
It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.
The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.
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