The Beatles Quotes
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People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
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Don't hate what you don't understand!
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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
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I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
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The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
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The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
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All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.
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Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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Art is only a way of expressing pain.
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It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.
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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
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I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
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The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.
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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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Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of Bob Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.
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I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.
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I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
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I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.
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It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
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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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Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
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I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.