The Beatles Quotes
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I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.
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Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.
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I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
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I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan... and I keep fit and keep moving... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.
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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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I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
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All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.
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If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
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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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I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.
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Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.
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All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
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New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.
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If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
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People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.
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In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.
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We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.
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We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.
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I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.
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Don't need a gun to blow your mind...