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The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
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What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.
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The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
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There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
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America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.
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Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.
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Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
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Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...
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If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that. ... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.
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I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.
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I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
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I'd thought it would be something like King's Road London, only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.
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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...
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He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song 'Taxman.' But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of 'Come Together' or three lines of 'Eleanor Rigby,' you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
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She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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Elvis died the day he went into the army.
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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
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The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.
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That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.'