Quotes
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"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway." Paul McCartney "The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you." John Lennon "I wanted to be successful, not famous." George Harrison “That was a great time. I was in my 20s, had lots of energy. I have great memories of it.” Ringo Starr "Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it." John Lennon's Aunt Mimi Smith “We didn't all get into music for a job! We got into music to avoid a job, in truth - and get lots of girls.” Paul McCartney 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" "The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them." George Harrison "So we went in and we did the album in twelve hours... because we did everything we'd been doing on the road for the last year or so, you know." Ringo Starr on recording the Beatles' first album "It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it." Paul McCartney "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." John Lennon "Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something." John Lennon, 1980 "I'll play what you want or I won't play at all." George Harrison to Paul during the recording of the "Let It Be" album “So this is America. They must be out of their minds." Ringo Starr, in 1964, arriving in America for the first time "I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest." Paul McCartney "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." John Lennon "Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence." Ringo Starr "They gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems." George Harrison in 1995 on Beatlemania "George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money." Paul McCartney "You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth." John Lennon "America has everything, why should they want us?" George Harrison, 1964, as the Beatles proceed to conquer America "We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter." Ringo Starr "At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod." Paul McCartney "In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people." George Harrison “Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.” John Lennon, from his song "Nobody Loves You"
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