The Beatles Quotes
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Yoko Ono was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.
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'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.
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As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.
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We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
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The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.
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I go to restaurants and the groups always play 'Yesterday.' I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us 'Yesterday.' He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing 'I Am The Walrus.'
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If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.
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If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.
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When Yoko Ono and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.
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There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
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Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.
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I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.
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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.
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You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.
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Tell the truth and make it rhyme...
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I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
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Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.
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Don't need a gun to blow your mind...
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.