The Beatles Quotes
- All Quotes
- News Quotes
-
I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it. I believe Paul's got everything he ever had, but I lost a lot of mine.
-
I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.
-
When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
-
Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
-
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
-
I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
-
The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
-
We thought being offered the M.B.E. Member of the Order of the British Empire was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.
-
I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
-
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.
-
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
-
With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
-
Music is everybody's possession.
-
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.
-
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
-
She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
-
We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
-
the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
-
He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.
-
I'm quite honored by it. They [people] tell me that , 'If it hadn't of been for you, I wouldn't have played drums.' Hey, don't blame me, I was just up there doing my stuff. So no, I never take it as any real pressure.
-
The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.
-
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.
-
I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.
-
We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.