The Beatles Quotes
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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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.
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I'd Like to beUnder the seaIn an octopus's garden with you.
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I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up - that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.
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Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.
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There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.
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I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
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I mean we The Beatles had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .
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One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
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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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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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.
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You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
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All I do is scream your name.
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I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs, I don’t think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about.
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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.