Ouotes
Here are some quotes from the boys...
"I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache."
-Paul
"When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience."
-Paul
"Explaining the motives behind the breakup of the Beatles: "Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because i have a better time with my family."
- Paul
"We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time."
-John
"I think the French girls are fabulous."
-Paul
"Us, communists? Why, we can't be communists. We're the world's number one capitalists. Imagine us communists!"
-Paul
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
-The Beatles
"You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside. "
- John Lennon
"You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like."
-John Lennon
"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and myself and I hoped we passed the audition."
-John Lennon
Quotes from "A Hard Day's Night":
John ~ "We know how to behave. We've had lessons."
Reporter ~ "What do you call that hairstyle you're wearing?"
George ~ "Arthur."
Reporter ~ "How did you find America?"
John ~ "Turn left at Greenland."
Paul ~ "Of course he can talk. He's a human being, isn't he?"
Ringo ~ "Well if he's your grandfather, who knows?"
John ~ "I now declare this bridge open."
All ~ "Hey mister, can we have our ball back?"
Ringo ~ "That old man doesn't like me, it's because I'm small."
George ~ "You have an inferiority complex."
Ringo ~ "That's why I play the drums. To compensate."
John ~ "Betcha can't guess what I was in for!"
Man in train compartment ~ "I fought the war for your sort."
Ringo ~ "Bet you're sorry you won!"
Reporter ~ "Do you often see your father?"
Paul ~ "No actually, we're just good friends."
George ~ "He's very fussy about his drums. They loom large in his legend."
John ~ "You couldn't get a pen in your foot, you swine!"
Norm ~ "It'll be wine, woman and song all the way with Ringo, once he gets a taste for it."
Paul's Grandfather ~ "So far I've been in a car and a room and a train and a room and a room and a room."
John ~ "We seem to have become a limited company."
George ~ "Look at that sweater. I bet his wife knitted it for him."
John ~ "She probably knitted him."
Geroge ~ "Sorry we hurt your field, mister."
Paul ~ "Oh too too sorry flesh would melt...ZAP!!"
Paul ~ "He's probably into some kind of orgy by now."
John ~ "orgy? orgy!"
Grandfather ~ "I was only trying to encourage little Ringo to enjoy himself."
Ringo ~ "Do i snore, John?
John ~ "Yeah, you're a window rattler, son."
Grandfather ~ "My opinion of you is you're all a bunch of sissies!"
Paul ~ "Ah look, it's the girls!"
John ~ "You're a swine, ain't he, George?"
George ~ "Yeah, a swine."
John ~ "Why don't we just the show right here? Yeah!"
John ~ "She's going to show me her stamp collection."
Paul ~ "Oh, it's a laugh a line with Lennon!"
Norm ~ "Put them girls down, Lennon!"
Ringo ~ "I'm going paradin'!"
Grandpa ~ "You'd think I haven't noticed!"
Ringo ~ "You want to stop twistin your face? It makes you look scornful."
John ~ "Here he is, the middle aged boy wonder."
Paul ~ "Oh, well, we were looking for Ringo and we realized he must have come back here."
George ~ "Hey Shake, where's me boot? And get us some tea while your at it."
Norm: ~ "There's only on thing I'm going to say to you, John Lennon. You're a swine!"
Quotes from "Help!":
Paul ~ "I'm all sticky - You're all red!"
Ringo ~ "They have to paint me red before they chop me. It's a different religion from ours...I think."
John ~ "So it famous is!"
George ~ "That's all gab, disemboweling"
John ~ "Why didn't ya think of that ya twit?"
Ringo ~ "I thought she was a sandwich, till she went spare on me hand."
Ringo ~ "What was it that first attracted you to me?"
John ~ "Well, you're very polite aren't you?"
John ~ "You're a failure jewler."
John ~ "You're a failure scientist."
Ringo ~ "The firebrigade got me head out of some railings once."
John ~ "Did you want them to?"
Ringo ~ "No, i used to leave it there when I wasn't using it for school. You can see a lot of the world from railings."
John ~ " No one knows we're here but Paul and me."
George ~ "I know we're here."
John ~ "Get me the home office! He's wrecking my home!"
George ~ "I didn't encourage that wink. It used to be you, didn't it Paul?"
Paul ~ "Say no more."
Ahme~ "I can say no more."
John ~ "Oh, chop it off, Ringo!"
Ringo ~ "I've had some pretty good times with this finger."
John ~ "Doesn't all the blood rush to your head?"
John ~ "What's this?
Ringo ~ "It's a season ticket."
John ~ "Oh good, I like a lot of seasoning in me soup."
John ~ "Quit trying to drag things down to your own level. It's immature, son."
Ringo ~ "I like operations. They give you a sense of outlook."
John ~ "What are you doing?"
Ringo ~ "Posting a letter."
John ~ "How do you feel?"
Ringo ~ "I used to use my hands"
John ~ "He used to use his hands."
George ~ "It's a fiendish thingy! Run Ringo!"
Ringo ~ "We need protection! We have a record to do tomorrow! I need protection!"
Ringo ~ "Come on John, get up! Come on Johnny, get up! Work with me baby, come on!"
Paul ~ "Cop this, one hand!"
George ~ "Hey, what's that whirly thing coming through his stomach?"
George ~ "Bad Machine!"
George ~ "We are going for a friendly walk with the police down by the river."
John ~ "Is there a cure for nail biting?"
Paul ~ "Oh yes, oh yes."
Quotes from "Magical Mystery Tour":
John ~ "I am the walrus!"
Ringo ~ "Will you stop that sitting 'round?"
Quotes from "Yellow Submarine":
George ~ "Let me peruse it!"
Quotes from The Beatles Cartoons
John ~ "I suggest you take a flying leap for yourself."
Paul ~ "You there Susan and you too Adam, if you don't know the words just sing 'Yeah, Yeah,Yeah' but with gusto!"
Quotes from Press Conferences:
Reporter ~ "Can you sing for us?"
All ~ "NO!"
John ~ " We need money first."
Reporter ~ "What have you seen that you like best about our country?"
John ~ "You."
Reporter ~ "Ringo, why do you wear two rings on each hand?"
Ringo ~ "Cause I can't fit them through my nose."
Reporter ~ "You and the snow came to Washington at the same time today. Wich do you think will have the greater impact?"
Ringo ~ "The snow. We're going tomorrow."
Reporter ~ "What do you think of the American girls, as opposed to the British girls?"
George ~ "They're the same, only they speak with an accent."
Reporter ~ "Are you concerned with the rumor going around that the Rolling Stones are now more important than the Beatles?"
Paul ~ "It doesn't worry us."
John ~ "Cause we manage them."
Reporter~ "What do you think of Beethoven?"
Ringo ~ "I love him, especially his poems."
Reporter ~ "What do you think your music does for these people?"
Ringo ~ "Well, it pleases them, I think. It must because they're buying it."
Reporter ~ "Why does it excite them so much?"
Paul ~ "We don't know really."
John ~ "If we knew, we'd form another group and be managers."
Reporter ~ "What do you think of the campaign in Detroit to stamp out the Beatles?"
Paul ~ "We've got a campaign of our own to stamp out Detroit."
Reporter ~ "Do you hope to take anything home with you?"
George ~ "Rockefeller Center."
Reporter ~ "Why do you think you're so popular all of the sudden?"
John ~ "I don't know, it must be the weather."
Reporter ~ "What do you do when you're cooped up in hotel rooms between shows?"
George ~ "We ice skate."
Reporter ~ "The French have not yet made up their minds about the Beatles. What do you think of them?"
All ~ "Oh, we like the Beatles. They're gear."
Announcer (in an interview from Sidney, right after Ringo got his tonsils out and rejoined the band in Australia) ~ "Any minute now the Beatles will appear. Wait a minute. Here comes the Beatles! You can't hear them, over the screech of the crowd. This is what they've been waiting for! "
John ~ "Hey!"
SCREAMS
John ~ "How are you?"
SCREAMS
George ~ "There's a camera!"
SCREAMS
John ~ "We love you."
SCREAMS
Announcer ~ "Well, you've just seen the Beatles. The crowds are subdued now and safely on their way home."
Question ~ "It's very brave to bring us the original Ringo Starr."
Paul ~ "Very brave, so brave."
John (to Ringo) ~ "I've seen your dad on TV, you know."
Ringo ~ "Oh yeah? What was he doing?"
Question ~ "Are you still ill?"
Ringo ~ "I'm better now."
Question ~ "I hear you had quite a reception when you came in to Melbourne. "
John ~ "It's as wild as Adelaide. I think that makes them equal. That's about the wildest one we've ever seen."
Paul ~ "I think Australia's pretty wild all around."
Question ~ "Were you worried about what you saw?"
Paul ~ "We get worried when it stops, you know."
Question ~ "John, didn't you bring some of your family over here with you?"
John ~ "My auntie and she's in New Zealand. Yes, that's why she came. She's got got relatives there that's related to her. She came back here to get fresh air."
Question ~ "There's so much noise at your shows, are you miming your songs?"
John ~ "Wouldn't that be cheating?"
Question ~ "Do you enjoy press conferences?"
John ~ "Yes, depending on the intelligence of the questions."
Other Quotes:
George ~ "It's all in the mind, ya know."
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Paul ~ "Plastic Soul, Man. Plastic Soul."
John ~ "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that, I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first, rock 'n roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his desciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
Paul ~ "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
John ~ "Listen to the color of your dreams."
John ~ "All you need is love."
Paul ~ "The hardest act to follow is yourself."
John ~ "We were just a band, that made it very, very big that's all."
John ~ "For the next number, I'd like to ask your help. The people in the cheap seats clap your hands, and the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
George ~ "When you've seen beyond yourself - then you may find peace of mind is waiting there."
John ~ "Imagine all the people living life in peace."
Ringo ~ "Tomorrow Never Knows."
Paul ~ "Someone from the office rang me up and said, 'Look, Paul, you're dead.' And I said, 'Oh, I don't agree with that.'"
John ~ "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
Ringo ~ "I'd like to be sort of comfortable, with a nice house and a few hair dressing businesses. That's a good game."
John ~ "My defenses were so great. The cocky rock-and-roll hero who knew all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple."
John, after he wrote I am the walrus he said to Pete Shotton ~ "Let the fuckers try and work that one out, Pete!"
Ringo ~ "It's been a hard day's night that was!"
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George ~ "Show me that I'm everywhere and get me home for tea."
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Paul ~ "Band on the run."
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John ~ "Love is a promise,
Love is a souvenir,
Once given never forgotten,
Never let it disappear."
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John, at dinner held in his honor for In His Own Write ~ "Thank you. You have a lucky face."
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Ringo ~ "The future will never come, it will all soon be over tomorrow."
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John ~ "Here's another clue for you all. The walrus was Paul."
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John ~ "Her and I are like the wind, you can't see us coming: But when we come through, the trees bend."
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John ~ "Happiness is a warm gun."
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George ~ "All the world, is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much."
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John ~ "Living is easy with eyes closed... Misunderstanding all you see... It's getting hard to be some one but it's all wrong... It doesn't matter much to me..."
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John ~ "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour, trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."
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John ~ "When I was about 12, I used to think I must be a genuis, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genuis, I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care."
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Paul ~ "I realise now that taking drugs was like taking an asprin without having a headache."
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George, to George Martin ~ "Well, I don't like your tie for a start."
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Ringo, on Paul's "Death" ~ "I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do."
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Ringo, after arriving in the US for the first time ~ "So this is America. They all seem out of their minds."
John:
"ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive?.....It came in a vision- a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them: 'from this day on you are Beatles with an ‘A’ '"
"From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success."
"I'm never conscious of being a Beatle. Never. I'm just me. I'm not famous."
"Not famous forever? Perhaps a new group will come along and take over from us. It would be so nice to be forgotten."
"What I'd like is to be left completely alone. I'm not a mixer. I've got enough friends to see me through. I just want to be left alone."
"I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over."
"I'm not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate."
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war-for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
"We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?"
"We're going to send two acorns for peace to every world leader from John and Yoko. Perhaps if they plant them and watch them grow they may get the idea into their heads"
"I really thought Love would save us all."
"We're no better than anyone else. Nobody is. We're all the same. Everyone's the same inside."
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. We're more popular that Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were think and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
"I feel higher than the Empire State Building!"-John, after Sean was born
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
"Listen to the color of your dreams."
"Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you.'"
"The day the fans desert us, I ´ll be wondering how to pay for my whiskey and cokes"
"I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope"-John Lennon, Dec 8, 1980
"I'm pleased I made it young. Making it young means that I've now got the rest of my life to do what I really want. It would be terrible to spend your whole life before you finally make it, just to found out it's meaningless. We knew it anyway, but we had to find out for ourselves."
"I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dream weaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."
"“I want money just to be rich.""
"If someone thinks that love and peace is a clichéé that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come help me,' you just scream."
"When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed....If there is such a thing as a genius...I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care."
"I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."
"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
"The difference between the Beatles and Elvis was that Elvis died but his manager lived...with us our manager died and the Beatles lived."
"Rock'n'roll will be whatever we make it."
"George himself is no mystery. But the mystery inside of George is immense. It's watching him uncover it all little by little that's so damn interesting."
"Ringo is Ringo; that's all there is to it. And he's every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny, and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles."
"Don't need a watch to waste your time."
"Don't need a gun to blow your mind."
---From "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
PAUL McCARTNEY
The thing is, we're all the same person. We're just four parts of the 'one'. We're individuals, but we make up together The Mates, which is one person. If one of us, one of the mates leans over one way we all go with him or we pull him back. We all add something different to the whole."
"To me, the Beatles will always be just a great little rock 'n' roll band, nothing more, nothing less. The difference bewteen the Beatles and all the other great rock bands is that the Beatles just happened to make it big."
"There's a lot of random in our songs...writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you've the jigsaw puzzle."
"It's great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles White Album, shut up!"
"At the beginning I was annoyed with [John], jealous because of Yoko, and afraid about the breakup of a great musical partnership. It took me a year to realize they were in love."
"I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache."
"I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know." -(1969)
"We're not learning to be architects, or painters, or writers. We're learning to be. That's all."
"We don't need anybody else to tell us what is real; inside each one of us is love, and we know how it feels."
"I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors concerning my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know."
"All that theatre ever gave me was a sore arse"
"We were always pushing ahead: 'louder, further, more, different.' "
"As Beatles, we've gone through millions of superficial changes, which mean nothing and haven't changed us. In posh places you get to like avocado and spinach, so you have them all the time and when you've done all that you can go back. If you feel like cornflakes for lunch, you ask for them."
GEORGE HARRISON
"The world used us as an excuse to go mad then blamed it on us afterwards."
"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."
"Reaching a godlike state is the most important thing, but I've got a job, being a Beatle."
"There's high, and there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high that's where I'm goin'."
"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much"
"We die and go on to a new life where we try again, to get better all the time. That's life. That's death."
"With our love we could save the world.If they only knew..."
"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you"
"I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my head it was bound to come out".
"I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.'"
"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."
"As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."
"I'm more concerned about the future, but it would take six months of just talking to tell you exactly what I believe in - all the Hindu theories, the Eastern philosophies, and reincarnation."
"The only important thing in life is Karma, that means roughly actions. Every action has a reaction which is equal and opposite."
"I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everywhere, or I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years."-- Talking about his North American tour in 1974.
"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music -- everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music."
"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept the records in the record rack, the tea in the tea caddy, and the pot in the pot box."
"LSD isn't a real answer. It doesn't give you anything."
"Playing without Ringo is like driving a car on three wheels."
"It's funny how people behave nicely when there's a stranger in the room."
"I'm really quite simple; I don't want to be in the music business full-time because I'm a gardener. I plant the flowers and watch the river flow."
When Americans threw candy:"It was terrible. They hurt because they don't have soft jelly babies in America, but hard jelly beans like bullets. Some newspaper had dug out the old joke which we'd forgotten about, when John once said I'd eaten all his jelly babies, and everywhere we went, I got them thrown at me."
"Everyone's egos started going crazy. Maybe it was just lack of tact or discretion, but feelings got hurt, and probably the biggest problem of all was that there was no way Yoko Ono or Linda McCartney was ever going to be in the Beatles."
"Having played with other musicians I don't even think The Beatles were that good. It's all a fantasy, this idea of putting The Beatles back together again. The only way it will happen is if we're all broke. Even then I wouldn't relish playing with Paul. He's a fine bass player but sometimes he's overpowering. Ringo's got the best backbeat in the business - I'd join a band with John Lennon any day. But I wouldn't join a band with Paul McCartney. That's not personal; it's from a musician's point of view. Anyway, we're all enjoying being indivuals. We'd all been boxed in for ten years. The biggest break in my career was getting in The Beatles in 1963. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."
"Eric's been a close friend of mine for years. I would rather (Patti) was with him than with some dope. We both loved Eric and still do. (Seperating) was the best thing for us to do and we should have done it much sooner. But I didn't have the problem with it, Erichad the problem. Every time I'd go see him, he'd really be hung up about it and I was saying, "Fuck it man, don't be apologizing," and he didn't believe me. I was saying, "I don't care."
"All we did for England, selling all that corduroy and making it swing, and all they gave us was a lousy wooden medal with strings through it."
"I've written enough songs now so whatever they say, I'm cool, I know the motive behind writing the song and I don't feel guilty about it all."
RINGO STARR
"It was magical. I mean, there were really some loving, caring moments between 4 people. A really amazing closeness, with 4 guys who really loved each other- it was pretty sensational."
"Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about"
"I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'"
"You know I'm not very good at singing because I haven't got a great range. So they write songs for me that are pretty low and not too hard."
"When we were just becoming famous it was nice to go around to see people knowing you, , which is how all famous show-biz people are supposed to do. But it was a drag."
"I think the four of us together, all sort of equal, made us one whole. We're different from each other, yet alike. When you have a single star, or a leader and a backing group, you either take him or leave him. With the four of us, there's more to go on."
"I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs."
"So this is America. They must be out of their minds."
"There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank."
"I became a drummer because it's the only thing I could do. But whenever I hear another drummer, I know I'm no good.....I'm not good on the technical things, but I'm good with all the motions, swinging my head, like."
"I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do."
"It'll be nice to be part of history, some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids."
"I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable."
"When I'm ninety five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a restaurant."
"He (a captain on a boat Ringo was on) told me all about octopuses, how they go 'round the sea bed and pick up stones and shiny objects and build gardens. I thought, 'How fabulous!' 'cause at the time I just wanted to be under the sea, too. I wanted to get out of it a while."
"Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs? I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about."
· · There is a lot of random in our songs… writing, thinking, letting others think of bits- then bang, you have the jigsaw puzzle – Paul
· · Touring was murder. We hardly saw any of America because we had to stay inside hotel rooms all the time. And we were always dead beat – Ringo
· · I think this is my favourite on The Beatles album. – Paul on ‘Happiness is a warn gun’
· · Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more. Wouldn’t you? – John
· · Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs – I don’t think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about. – Ringo
· · Everybody thinks Paul wrote it, but John wrote it for me. He’s got a lot of soul has John, you know. – Ringo on ‘Good night’
· · There is no way to pour £4,000,000 into India and make it right – Paul
· · We were influenced by our Tamla Motown bit on this. You see we’re influenced by whatever’s going. – John on ‘Got to get you into my life’
· · We always got screams up in Scotland, right from the beginning. I suppose they haven’t got much to do up there. – John
· · I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my head it was bound to come out. – George
· · It wasn’t so much that Brian Epstein discovered the Beatles but that the Beatles discovered Brian Epstein. – Paul
· · The problem is that so much of the pop and record business is being run by people who don’t have a clue what it is about – Paul
· · We made a mistake, the Maharishi is human. For a while we thought he wasn’t. We believe in meditation but not the Maharishi and his scene. We’re finished with that bit of it. – John
· · Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry. – John at the Royal Variety Performance, Nov. 15, 1963
· · You know I’m not very good at singing because I haven’t got a great range. So they write songs for me that are pretty low and not too hard. – Ringo
· · Derek got held up. He rang up to say he’d be late. I told him on the phone that the house was in Blue Jay Way. He said he could find it okay, he could always ask a cop. – George
· · We’re going to send two acorns for peace to every world leader from John and Yoko. Perhaps if they plant them and watch them grow they may get the idea into their heads. – John
· · I mean we’re human too. I do get hurt when they attack Yoko or say she’s ugly or something. – John
· · The thing is, we’re all really the same person. We’re just four parts of the one. – Paul
· · The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. – George
· · I can’t forgive Paul and George for the way they treated Yoko at first, but I can’t help loving them either. - John
· · I’m down to my last £50,000. – John on ‘Taxman’
· · Help was great fun but it wasn’t our film. We were sort of guest stars. It was fun, but basically as an idea for a film it was a bit wrong for us – Paul
· · We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once? – John
I'm dead am I? Why does nobody ever tell me anything?
--Paul
I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, "You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.
--George
