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George Harrison
Reporter: What would you do
if the fans broke through the police barriers?
George: We'd die laughing.
Press: Why don't you smile,
George?
George: I'll hurt my lips.
Press: Are you married?
George: "No, I'm George."
"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music -- everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music."
"Derek got held up. He rang to say he'd be late. I told him on the phone that the house was in Blue Jay Way. He said he could find it okay, he could always ask a cop."
"The world used us as an excuse to go mad."
(On John's use of of feedback
at the beginning of "I Feel Fine")
"I guess in a way he invented
Jimi Hendrix."
"The nicest thing is to open up the newspapers and not find yourself in them."
"We got backstage to see Maharishi, and I said to him, 'Got any mantras?'"
"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."
"I think people who can live a life in music are telling the world, you can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly"
"As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."
I picture John physically as someone youthful who made a lot, but I feel him more as an energy, more metaphysically. -- I can't express how much I love this quote and how much sense it makes overall -- sorellie
Ringo Starr
Reporter: Why do you think
you get more fan mail than the other Beatles?
Ringo: I don't know. I suppose
it's because more people write me.
Reporter: What did you think
when the pilot got on the intercom, before you landed at Kennedy (possible
engine problems)?
Ringo: Beatles, Women, and
children first!
Reporter: Do you like topless
bathing suits?
Ringo: "We've been wearing
them for years."
Reporter: Don't you ever get
a haircut?
George: I had one yesterday.
Ringo: You should have seen
him the day before.
Press: You and the snow came
to Washington at the same time today. Which do you think will have the
greater impact?
Ringo: The snow. We're going
tomorrow.
"I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying yes"
"I became a drummer because it's the only thing I could do. But whenever I hear another drummer, I know I'm no good.....I'm not good on the technical things, but I'm good with all the motions, swinging my head, like."
"I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow."
"I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs."
"So this is America. They must be out of their minds." (1964, arriving in America for the first time).
"I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do."
"Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatle songs--I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about."
On a campaign in Detroit to stamp out the Beatles: "We're starting a campaign to stamp out Detroit."
"There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank."
"You know I'm not very good at singing because I haven't got a great range. So they write songs for me that are pretty low and not too hard."
"It was magical. I mean, there were really some loving, caring moments between 4 people. A really amazing closeness, with 4 guys who really loved each other- it was pretty sensational."
Paul McCartney
Press: Who thought up the
name Beatles?
Paul: I thought of it.
Press: Why?
Paul: Why not?
Reporter: Are you going to
have a leading lady for the film you're about to make?
Paul: We're trying to get
the Queen. She'll sell in England, you know.
"With 2 guitarists, with John and George, it was always John saying, "Put that (his amp) up a bit" and then George would come in and put his up a bit, then George Martin would be saying, "can you turn the Amps down please?" and John would look at George and say, "how much are you going down?", Let's go down to five, alright?", and John would go down to six. "ok, I'm at five!" "you bugger, you're not, you're at six!" There was always this terrible rivalry."
"I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know."
"I'm really glad that most of songs were about love, peace, and understanding."
"At the beginning I was annoyed with John, jealous because of Yoko, and afraid about the breakup of a great musical partnership. It took me a year to realize they were in love."
"I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache."
During the Paul is dead phase: "I'm dead am I? Why does nobody ever tell me anything?"
"It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine."
John Lennon
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: 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: 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: What do you expect
to find here in Australia?
John: Australians, I should
think.
"We always got screams up in Scotland, right from the beginning. I suppose they haven't got much else to do up there."
"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"
"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."
"We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?"
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
"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?")
"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)
"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."
"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." -- I can't believe he actually said this! This is just waaaaaay too creepy and sad. ;_; -- sorellie
"Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me Leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping." -- Wahhhhh!! ;_; -- sorellie
"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." -- This pissed a lot of people off, mostly because they were stupid and took it the wrong way. John wasn't criticizing Jesus, he was criticizing the world. And the sad thing is he was pretty much right. At least someone had the guts to say it. -- sorellie
Movie Quotes
Yellow Submarine
Paul: Look, it's a school
of whales.
Ringo: They look a little
bit old for school.
Paul: University then.
Ringo: University of whales.
John: They look like drop-outs
to me.
John: Break the glass.
George: We can't!
Paul: It's Beatle-proof.
John: Nothing is Beatle-proof!
[Ringo picks up a hole and
puts it in his pocket.]
Ringo: I've got a hole in
my pocket.
A Hard Day's Night
Reporter: Are you a mod, or
a rocker?
Ringo: Um, no. I'm a mocker.
Norm: The place is surging
with girls.
John: Please sir, sir, can
I have one to surge me sir, please sir?
Norm: No, you can't!
Reporter: Has success changed
your life?
George: Yes.
Reporter: What do you call
that collar?
Ringo: A collar.
George: What's the matter with
you, then?
Ringo: It's his grandfather.
I can tell he doesn't like me. It's cause I'm little.
George: Ah, you've got an
inferiority complex, you have.
Ringo: Yeah, I know, that's
why I play the drums. It's me active compensatory factor.
[After Ringo gets a pile of
fan mail.]
George: He comes from a large
family.
Man on train: Don't take that
tone with me young man. I fought the war for your sort.
Ringo: I bet you're sorry
you won.
Reporter: How did you find
America?
John: Turned left at Greenland.
[Huge stacks of fan mail is
delivered.]
Ringo: None for me, then?
Norm: Sorry.
John: [handing Ringo one letter]
Here, this'll keep you busy.
Grandfather: Hullo.
John: He can talk then, can
he?
Paul: 'Course he can talk.
He's a human being, isn't he?
Ringo: Well if he's your grandfather,
who knows! Ha ha ha!
[Having makeup applied]
George: Hey, you won't interfere
with the basic rugged concept of me personality, will you madam?
George: Sorry we hurt your field mister.
Lady: Hello.
John: Hello.
Lady: Oh wait a minute, don't
tell me who you are.
John: No I'm not.
Lady: Oh you are.
John: I'm not.
Lady: Oh you are, I know you
are.
John: I'm not, no.
Lady: You look just like him.
John: Do I? You're the first
one that's said that ever.
Lady: Yes you do, look.
John: No my eyes are lighter.
The nose.
Lady: Oh yes your nose is
very.
John: Is it?
Lady: I would have said so.
John: You know him better
though.
Lady: I do not. He's only
a casual acquaintance.
John: That's what you say.
Lady: What have you heard?
John: It's all over the place.
Lady: Is it? Is it really?
John: But I wouldn't have
it. I stuck up for you.
Lady: I knew I could rely
on you.
John: Thanks.
Lady: [puts on her glasses]
You don't look like him at all.
[John walks away pouting]
John: She looks more like
him than I do.
Help!
Ringo: They have to paint
me red before they chop me. It's a different religion from ours. I think.
[John and Paul are trying to
get Ringo to cut his finger off.]
Paul: You don't miss your
tonsils, do ye?
Ringo: What was it that first
attracted you to me?
John: Well, you're very polite,
aren't you?
George: Hey, it's a thingie! A fiendish thingie!
John: [to Ringo whose arm is
trapped inside a mail box] What are you doing?
Ringo: Posting a letter.
John: How do you feel?
Ringo: I used to use me hands.
John: He used to use his hands.
Superintendent: I used to be
quite an imitator in my day. James Cagney... [imitating Ringo on the phone]
Hey, this is the great Ringo here, gear fab.t
George: Not a bit like Cagney.
Paul: [to a belly dancer] Doesn't
the blood rush to your stomach?