You have entered the one and only Yay! For those of you who have been here before, you'll notice that now the speaker of the quotes is now listed. (You don't have to Identify them yourself...aren't you lucky.)
Oh yeah, and not all of these quotes were uttered by the Beatles themselves. Have FUN!!
1. "I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable."
-----Ringo Starr
2. "[Some of the more recent Beatles songs] show an acute awareness of the principles of rhythm and brainwashing. For [the Beatles] to have written some of their songs is like someone who had not had physics or math inventing the A-Bomb...because of its technical excellence, it is possible that this music was put together by behavioral scientists..."
------Dr. Joseph Crow
3. "...the only way you can better John is by copying him exactly."
-------Yoko Ono
4. "There's a lot of random in our songs...writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you've the jigsaw puzzle."
------Paul McCartney
5. "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."
---------Ringo Starr
6. "I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a young race of laughing freemen."
---------Timothy Leary
7. "It's all in the mind, y'know!" (This is a personal fave of mine!)
---------George Harrison
8. "John, I felt from the very beginning, was a real genius. I never met anybody that young, at twenty-three, who was a musician, a composer, a songwriter, an artist, an actor and a poet all rolled into one."
---------Walter Shenson
9. "I think people who truly 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 its the very best and it's the part I give most willingly.'"
--------George Harrison
10. "I remember seeing entire studios being torn apart and put back together by a drum sound that the Beatles would get...What they did, everything they did, became state of the art."
---------Tommy James
11. "As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead." --------George Harrison
12. "I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying yes."
-------Ringo Starr
13. "The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to worry, not before. Until then, the Beatles are alive and will and the beat goes on, the beat goes on."
--------Part of the last press release before the break-up
14. "I'm ready to sing for the world George, if you'll only give me the backing."
---------John Lennon, to George Martin
15. "When I'm ninety five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a restaurant."
---------Ringo Starr
16. "A guitar's all right, John, but you'll never earn your living by it"
-------John's Aunt Mimi
17. I get my spasms of being intellectual. I read about politics, but I don't think I'd vote for anyone-no messages from any phoney politicians are coming through me."
--------John Lennon
18. "The British house of royalty has put me on the same level as a bunch of vulgar numbskulls."
-------Some politician.
19. "We thought being offered the MBE was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We all met and agreed that it was daft. It all just seemed part of the game we'd agreed to play, like getting the Ivor Novello Awards. Whe agreed in order to annoy even more people who were already annoyed."
---------John
20. "There was only one person in the United States that we really wanted to meet."
--------John, talking about Elvis.
21. "It was terrible. They hurt because they don't have soft jelly babies in America, but hard jelly beans like bullets. Some newspaper had dug out the old joke which we'd forgotten about, when John once said I'd eaten all his jelly babies, and everywhere we went, I got them thrown at me."
--------George, talking about when the American fans went wild and pelted him with candy.
22. "The rumour we were splitting up was rubbish, because we're all great friends and we don't want to split up. There's never been any talk of it, except for by other people."
-------Paul
23. "You know when they turn the last page of one section to show you it's come to an end before going on to the next part? That's what Brian's death was like, the end of a chapter."
-------George
24. "John and Yoko? Some people think they're mad, but he's only being John."
--------Ringo
25. "As Beatles, we've gone through millions of superficial changes, which mean nothing and haven't changed us. In posh places you get to like avocado and spinich, so you have them all the time and when you've done all that you can go back. If you feel like cornflakes for lunch, you ask for them."
---------Paul
26. "Paul rang me up and said, 'Look, I'm a bit fed up with the way things have been going. Will you come back and produce an album like you used to?'"
----------George Martin
27. "Do I look dead? I'm fit as a fiddle!"
--------Paul, on his alleged death
28. "The only thing which is important in life is karma, which roughly means actions. Every action has an opposite and equal reaction, which is equal and opposite."
----------George
29. "Everyone's egos started going crazy. Maybe it was just lack of tact or discretion, but feelings got hurt, and probably the biggest problem of all was that there was no way Yoko Ono or Linda McCartney was ever going to be in the Beatles."
---------George
30. "If all four of us had to stand up in front of a million fans and they had to line up behind behind the one they liked best, I think Paul would get the most, John and George would be joint second and Ringo would be last."
--------Poor, poor, Ringo (Don't worry, I love you!!!)
31. "Ghandi says we can create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George-those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now."
--------George
32. "I've mastered the art of rice-they say anyone can cook rice, but few people can cook it well. I cook it reasonably well. I can do fish and I've learned to make bread, which I was thrilled with. I took a Polaroid of my first bread."
--------John, during his temporary retirment in which he stayed home with his son and wife.
33. "When we came out of the Dakota building, I didn't need to hear people telling me how much they loved the Beatles. I was there to see my friend."
----------Ringo, after Johns' death.
