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- "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was a dream weaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20 000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."
- "ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive?.....It came in a vision- a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them: 'from this day on you are Beatles'."
- "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. We're more popular that Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his desciples were think and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
- "Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it."
- "Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, "Look at what we've done for you."
- "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." (1963, at the high point of the group's set during the Royal Variety Performance before members of the British Royal Family)
- "You." (1964, when asked by a reporter "What have you seen that you like best about our country?")
- "I don't know, it must be the weather." (When asked by a reporter "Why do you think you're so popular all of a sudden?")
- "The day the fans desert us is the day I'll be wondering how to pay for my whisky and cokes"
- Reporter: "How did you find America?"
John: "Turn left at Greenland."
- Reporter: "Did you really use four letter words on the tourists in the Bahamas?"
John: "What we actually said was 'gosh'."
Paul: "We may have also said 'heavens!'"
John: "Couldn't have said that, Paul. More than four letters."
- Reporter: "Do you have any special advice for teenagers?"
John: "Don't get pimples."
- Reporter: "Some officials have been saying that your work is 'unamerican'. How do you feel about this?"
John: "Well, that's very observant of them."
- Reporter: Can we look foward to any more Beatle movies?"
John: "Well, there'll be many more but I'm not sure whether you can look foward to them or not."
- Reporter: "Does all the adulation from teenage girls affect you?"
John: "When I feel my head start to swell, I look at Ringo and know perfectly well we're not supermen."
- Reporter: "The French have not made up their minds about the Beatles. What do you think of them?"
John: "Oh, we like the Beatles. They're gear."
- Press: "What excuse do you have for your collar-length hair?"
John: "Well, it just grows out yer head."
- Reporter: Will you sing something for us?
All four: "NO!
Reporter: "Can you sing at all?"
John: "No, we need money first."
- Reporter: "Does show business run in your family?"
John: "Well, me dad always used to say that me mum was a great performer."
- "Lots of people who have 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. Wouldn't you?"
- "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. "
- "One day I'll be famous & you'll be sorry." -John to his Aunt Mimi.
"The guitar's all right, John, but you'll never make a living of it." -Aunt Mimi to John.
- "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
- Reporter: "How do you add up success?"
All four: "Money!"
Reporter: "What will you do when Beatlemania subsides?"
John: "Count the money."
- Reporter: "What do you expect to find here in Australia?"
John: "Australians, I should think." (6/12/64 in Adelaide)
- Returning to stage after Paul's solo rendition of "Yesterday" (8/1/65 in Blackpool)
"Thank you Ringo. That was wonderful."
- Introducing a song in Tokyo (7/1/66)
"We'd like to do another song that was a single record in 1948, lub lub lub...television? Yes, I see! And this one's called 'Day Tripper'."
[15 minutes later]
"We'd like to do another song now that's another song. It's another song entirely. (Sings, with sweeping hand gestures) Why...lux a l'amooooour!!! (Resumes speaking) And this song is a sing song singy and it's well known by that old title of 'Nowhere Man'."
- "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
- "We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?"
- "Often the backing I think of early on never comes off. With tomorrow never knows I'd imagined in my head that in the background you would hear thousands of monks chanting, that was impractical of course, and we did something different. I should have tried to get near my original idea, the monks singing, I realize now that was what I wanted"
- "When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed...If there is such a thing as a genius... I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care."
- When asked if the Beatles wear wigs: "If we do, they must be the only wigs with real dandruff."
- "We're going to send two acorns for peace to every world leader from John and Yoko. Perhaps if they plant them and watch them grow they may get the idea into their heads"
- "From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success."
- "[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time."
- "While we were in India they were all making their plans and I was going to produce, Yoko and I would've been produced her had we not fallen in love anyway. And now we're together. Yes, it turned out much better, and it's getting better all the time"
- "I'm not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate."
- "My whole school life was a case of 'I couldn't care less'. It was just a joke as far as I was concerned. Art was the only thing I could do, and my headmaster told me that if I didn't go toart school I might as well give up life. I wasn't really keen. I thought it would be a crowd ofold men, but I should make the effort and make something of myself. I stayed for five years doing commercial art. Frankly, I found it all as bad as maths and science. And I loathed those. The funny thing was I didn't even pass art in the GCE. I spent the exam time doing daft cartoons. I got into art school by doing some decent stuff and taking it along to show them."
- "We always got screams up in Scotland, right from the beginning. I suppose they haven't got much else to do up there."
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