In this thread we post contemporary musicians who have spoke

"They’re (The Beatles) often a topic in the music that we make. The way they did their shit and how they went about making their music through stages of development. At the same time highly conceptual. We talk about The Beatles all the time, how we want to be The Beatles of Rap. I say that without arrogance, it is just something to aspire to."

"I wish I knew their formula" - Mike Love

"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, "The Beatles did."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"The Beatles were a whole cultural, economic and musical phenomenon and also a convergence of technology at the time that was the psychedelic era. It was just all that converging all at once. As well as having exceptionally talented pop song writers, if not such great lyricists as far as I’m concerned, but they had that ability to make a world in just few minutes was pretty unparalleled"- Michael Gira

>>71880696
My mistake, isn't contemporary

Robert Fripp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skBJ4UazDaw
3:06

>>71880810
great

"The Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were from Liverpool, which is like Hamburg or Norfolk, Virginia--a hard, sea-farin' town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them. Ringo's from the Dingle, which is like the fucking Bronx. The Rolling Stones were the mummy's boys--they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability. I did like the Stones, but they were never anywhere near the Beatles--not for humour, not for originality, not for songs, not for presentation. All they had was Mick Jagger dancing about. Fair enough, the Stones made great records, but they were always shit on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear."

-Lemmy, bassist of Hawkwind

>>71880810
>based Frippster likes the Beatles
Looks like I love the Beatles now. Fripp can't be wrong. Any recs on how to get into them?

Karlheinz Stockhausen

http://www.soundonsound.com/people/karlheinz-stockhausen

"Despite the composer’s oft–stated antipathy for popular music, he would go on to describe Lennon as “the most important mediator between popular and serious music of this century”."

Holger Czukay

"Everybody a little bit different. But mainly I would say the influence, for me, of [the] Beatles and Velvet Underground was most important."

http://www.krautrock.com/articles/int_czukay.html