The Beatles Quotes
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The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.
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She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
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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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I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
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In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
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I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.
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We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.
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Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
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You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate
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Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
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What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
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For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
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Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing...
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I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.
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This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
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I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war—for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.