The Beatles Quotes
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Yoko Ono was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.
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I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.
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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
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I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.
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There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
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The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
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Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.
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Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
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It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.
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Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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Obladi oblada life goes on bra Lala how the life goes on
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
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I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
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It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.
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I've been reading Nikita Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.
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I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.