Quotes
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"The first time I heard "Love Me Do" on the radio, I went shivery all over - I couldn't believe it!" George Harrison “Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty” John Lennon "When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting." Paul McCartney "The Beatles saved the world from boredom." George Harrison "America: It's like Britain, only with buttons." Ringo Starr "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot” John Lennon "The world used us as an excuse to go mad." George Harrison "I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions." Paul McCartney "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." John Lennon, from his song "Beautiful Boy" (1980) "The Beatles will go on and on." George Harrison "The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album." Ringo Starr "...And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know." Ringo Starr "Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music." Paul McCartney "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." John Lennon during the Royal Variety Performance (November 4, 1963) "I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death." Paul McCartney "I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's 'Get Back.' When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line 'Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko." John Lennon "What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect." Yoko Ono Reporter, during a 1964 press conference: "What do you call that haircut?" George: "Arthur" "I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band." Ringo Starr "I must confess, when the Beatles finished around about 1970, I thought, 'OK. We've done jolly well, I didn't honestly think I'd still be talking about them 30 or 40 years later. I thought interest would gradually peter out. But it does seem -- and I've gotten quite used to this -- each generation, as it comes along, finds Beatles music out for themselves. And I'm grateful for that. If anything, it was the epitome of British music in the last century." George Martin "As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead." George Harrison "I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, 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." John Lennon "When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.” Paul McCartney “No, I've got my band, and he's got his. It's never going to happen. We're both doing other things now.” Ringo Starr, 2005, when asked if he and Paul would ever tour together “The door’s always open for a meeting, although to be realistic it would have to be on Paul’s volition. But we’re not starry-eyed youngsters anymore, it would be nice to meet just for posterity. There were some great moments in Liverpool when we were kids.” Pete Best, about the possibility of a meeting with the other surviving former Beatles “I am devastated and very, very sad, ... We knew he'd been ill for a long time. He was a lovely guy and a very brave man and had a wonderful sense of humor. He is really just my baby brother.” Paul McCartney, after the death of George
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