The Beatles Quotes
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She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
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Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.
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There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
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I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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I'd Like to beUnder the seaIn an octopus's garden with you.
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I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
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What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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It depends who they are. If it's Mick Jagger or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton John, David Bowie are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.
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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
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I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
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It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
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I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.
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I'd thought it would be something like King's Road London, only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.
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You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.
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The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.
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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
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I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.
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I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.