"Three bars of 'A Day in the Life' still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities."
--#LeonardBernstein #Maestro
"'Eleanor Rigby' belongs in there among, I might get yelled at by some classical musicians, along there with Schubert and Mozart."
--#JoshuaBell @JoshuaBellMusic
"A Beatles record is definitely cleverer than a Henze opera."
--#PierreBoulez #Serialism
"Without irony, I regard Lennon and McCartney with Schumann and Brahms as the greatest songwriters of all time."
--#PeterSchickele #PDQBach
"The Beatles are the most important mediators between popular and serious music of this century."
--#KarlheinzStockhausen
"They haven't begun to be equalled."
--#NedRorem
#Classical #Composers #Conductors #TheBeatles #Songwriters #GOAT
Sources: The Beatles, Stokes; "Fab Fourum," SiriusXM, 2018; Composers On Music: 8 Centuries of Writings, Morganstern; "Bach To the Beatles, P.D.Q.", New York Post, 2001; "Composer Ned Rorem: A conversation with Bruce Duffie," 1986; Sound On Sound magazine, 2008
