Quotes

Quotes from the guys!!

John Lennon

"When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for."

"Will all the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." [At Royal Variety Performance 4th November 1963]

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"We're all Christ and we're all Hitler. We are trying to make Christ's message contemporary. We want Christ to win. What would he have done if he had advertisements, T.V., records, films and newspapers? The miracle today is communication. So Let's use it."

"Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes."

"My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple."

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that, I'm right and will be proved right. We're (the Beatles) more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first, rock 'n roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me." (to Playboy magazine in 1965)

(looking back on his "more popular than Jesus" comment) "I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days."

"I've made two 'discoveries' in my life: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I think that's a pretty damned good choice."

(on reconciling with Yoko in 1975, after more than a year apart) "The separation didn't work out."

Paul McCartney

"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

"I figure I've probably got a better chance of coming up with a good Paul McCartney song than Oasis has."

(on his LSD experience) "It's like taking an aspirin without having a headache."

"I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual."

"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"

George Harrison

"I'd rather be a musician than a rock star."

Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.

"It's a shame Paul can't be here because he was the one who had the speech in his pocket." (At his induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame).

On his teenage years in Liverpool: "You couldn't get a cup of sugar, let alone a Rock n' Roll record."

"People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets." (Ironically, Harrison continued to smoke cigarettes until the 1990s.)