John Lennon Quotes

"I GREW UP IN HAMBURG--NOT LIVERPOOL."

"What can I tell you about myself which you have not already found out from those who do not lie? I wear glasses.
I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from others. I was different all my life.
I was always a homebody; I think a lot of musicians are--you write and you play in the house. When I was wanting to be a painter when I was younger, or write poetry, it was always in the house. I spent a lot of time reading. Hanging around the home never bothered me. I enjoy it. I love it.
Genius is pain, too. It's just pain.
I'm not a tough guy. I've always had to have a facade of being tough to protect myself from other people's neuroses. But really, I'm a very sensitive, weak guy."

"Ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive?.....It came in a vision- a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them: 'from this day on you are Beatles'"

"From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success."

"I'm never conscious of being a Beatle. Never. I'm just me. I'm not famous."

"Not famous forever? Perhaps a new group will come along and take over from us. It would be so nice to be forgotten."

"What I'd like is to be left completely alone. I'm not a mixer. I've got enough friends to see me through. I just want to be left alone."

"I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over."

"I'm not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate."

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?"

"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"

"I really thought Love would save us all."

"We're no better than anyone else. Nobody is. We're all the same. Everyone's the same inside."

"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 disciples were think and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

"I feel higher than the Empire State Building!"-John, after Sean was born

"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.'"

"The day the fans desert us, I�ll be wondering how to pay for my whiskey and cokes"

"I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope"-John Lennon, Dec 8, 1980

"I'm pleased I made it young. Making it young means that I've now got the rest of my life to do what I really want. It would be terrible to spend your whole life before you finally make it, just to found out it's meaningless. We knew it anyway, but we had to find out for ourselves."

"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewlery."

"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."

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"

"Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either."

"If there is such thing as I genius, I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care."

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

"A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words."

"Once you've gone off and done something, you can't go off pleasin' everybody--so screw it!"

"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."

"[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time."

"We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time."

"You can go to church and sing a hymn,Judge me by the color of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside."

"You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like."

"We were just a band that made it very, very big that's all."

"Well, I suppose a couple of people jumped on the bandwagon, but it really doesn't matter because it promotes the whole idea of us if we're away. There's a few little Beatles still going to remind people of us."

"I'd always felt I'd make it. There were some moments of doubt, but I knew something would eventually happen. When Mimi used to throw away things I'd written or drawn, I used to say 'You'll regret that when I'm famous,' and I meant it."

"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."

"We thought being offered the MBE was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We all met and agreed it was daft. It all just seemed part of the game we'd agreed to play, like getting the Ivor Novello Awards. We agreed in order to annoy even more people who were already annoyed."

"We couldn't say it, but we didn't really like going back to Liverpool. Being local heroes made us nervous, and when we did shows there, they were always full of people we knew. We felt embarassed in our suits and being very clean, because we were worried that friends might think we'd sold out--which we had, in a way."

"Paul was telling me the other day that he and I used to have rows about who was the leader. I can't remember them, it had stopped mattering by then. I wasn't so determined to be the leader at all costs. If I did argue, it was just out of pride. All the arguments were just trivial, mainly because we were irritable with working so hard. We were just kids."

"I want money just to be rich."

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." (1980)

"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people! We received ours for entertaining people. I'd say we deserve ours more, wouldn't you?"

"I don't mind writing or reading or watching or speaking, but sex is the only physical thing I can be bothered with any more." (1966)

"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come help me,' you just scream." (1970)

"The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life."

"The difference between the Beatles and Elvis was that Elvis died but his manager lived...with us our manager died and the Beatles lived."

"I don't regret anything I've done, really, except for maybe hurting other people. I wouldn't have missed any of it."

"Nobody controls me, I'm uncontrollable."

"I DO beilieve in Beatles, by the way." (1974)

"Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel."

"The public doesn't understand the pain of being a freak."

"Rock 'n' Roll will be whatever we make it."

"Thank you. You have a lucky face."

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

"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and myself and I hoped we passed the audition."

Reporter: Do you enjoy press conferences?
John: Yes, depending on the intelligence of the questions.

Reporter: There's so much noise at your shows, are you miming your songs?
John: That would be cheating, wouldn't it?

Reporter: Why do you think you're popular all of the sudden?
John: I don't know, it must be the weather.

Reporter: What have you seen that you like best about our country?
John: You.

Reporter: Will you sing something for us?
The Beatles: NO! Reporter: Is there some sort of doubt that you can't sing?
John: No, we need money first.

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.

Reporter: Where did you get the idea for the haircuts?
John: Where'd you get the idea for yours?

Reporter: But why is it always girls screaming during the concerts?
John: If it was just boys, it would be a bit funny, wouldn't it?

Reporter: How does it feel, putting on the whole world?
John: How does it feel to be put on?

Reporter: Some officials have been saying that your work is un-American. How do you feel about this?
John: Well, that's very observant of them.

Reporter: Can we look forward to any more Beatles movies?
John: Well, there'll be many more, but I'm not sure whether you can look forward to them or not.

Reporter: What execuse have you for collar-length hair?
John: Well, it just grows out of yer head.

Reporter: What was the motivation or inspiration for that ["Eleanor Rigby"]?
John: Two queers.

Reporter: Who do you think does it best, the Beatles' songs?
John: Us.

Reporter: What do you think your music does for these people?
Ringo: Well, it pleases them, I think. It must because they're buying it.
Reporter: Why does it excite them so much?
Paul: We don't know really.
John: If we knew, we'd form another group and be managers.

Reporter: Are you concerned with the rumor going around that the Rolling Stones are now more important than the Beatles?
Paul: It doesn't worry us...
John: 'Cause we manage them.

Reporter: Why do you think you're popular all the sudden?
John: I don't know, it must be the weather.

Reporter: Do you wear wigs?
John: If we do, they must be the only ones with real dandruff!

Reporter: Do you have any advice for teenagers?
John: Don't get pimples.

Press: Are you afraid military service might break up your careers?
John: No. There's no draft in England now. We're going to let you do our fighting for us.

Press: Do you fight amongst yourselves?
John: Only in the mornings.

Press: Did you really use four-letter words on the tourists in the Bahamas?
John: What we actually said was 'gosh'.
Paul: We may have said 'heavens!'
John: Couldn't have said that, Paul. More than four letters.

"GOOD NIGHT AND THANKS FOR THE BREAD."

Paul McCartney Quotes

"I think The Beatles is as famous as I ever want to get."

"When I was a kid of sixteen, all adolescent and awkward and shy, I was dying to be an actor."

"The thing is, we're all the same person. We're just four parts of the 'one'. We're individuals, but we make up together The Mates, which is one person. If one of us, one of the mates leans over one way we all go with him or we pull him back. We all add something different to the whole."

"To me, the Beatles will always be just a great little rock 'n' roll band, nothing more, nothing less. The difference bewteen the Beatles and all the other great rock bands is that the Beatles just happened to make it big."

"It's great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles White Album, shut up!"

"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."

"We're not learning to be architects, or painters, or writers. We're learning to be. That's all."

"I loved the Cavern. It was a clastrophobic hell, but it was a great one."

"It [LSD] opened my eyes. WE only use one-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." (1967)

"I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without a headache."

"No matter how much we split; we're still very linked. We're the only four people who've seen the whole Beatlemania bit from the inside out, so we're tied forever, whatever happens."

"When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience."

"Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family." (Explaining the breakup of the Beatles)

"I think the French girls are fabulous."

"Someone from the office rang me up and said, 'Look, Paul, you're dead.' And I said, 'Oh, I don't agree with that.'"

"Do I look dead? I'm fit as a fiddle."

"I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors concerning my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know." (1969)

"The hardest act to follow is yourself."

"We don't need anybody else to tell us what is real; inside each one of us is love, and we know how it feels."

"Us, communists? Why, we can't be communists! We're the world's number one capitalists! Imagine us, communists!"

"We've already bought all our dreams. We want to share that possibility with others. When we were touring, and when the adoration and hysteria were at a peak, if we'd been the shrewd operators we were often made out to be, we might have thought--that's nice! Ah. Click. Let's use this for our own evil ends. But there's no desire in any of our heads to take over the world. That was Hitler. That's what he wanted to do. There is, however, a desire to get power in order to use it for good."

"There's a lot of random in our songs...writing, thinking, letting others think of bits--then bam, you've got the jigsaw puzzle."

"With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion."

"I'd never really been keen on trumpet, but I liked the guitar because I could play it just after learning a few chords."

"I don't feel like I imagine an idol is supposed to feel."

"The rumor that we were splitting 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 by other people."

"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 spinach, so you have them every time, and when you've done all that, you can go back. If you feel like cornflakes for lunch, you ask for them."

From Press Conferences

Press: 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 sells in England, you know.

Press: Did you really use four-letter words on the tourists in the Bahamas? John: What we actually said was 'gosh'.
Paul: We may have said 'heavens!'
John: Couldn't have said that, Paul. More than four letters.

Press: Do you ever think of getting a haircut?
Paul: No, love. Do you?

Reporter: What do you think of the campaign in Detroit to stamp out the Beatles?
Paul: We've got a campaign of our own to stamp out Detroit.

Reporter: Do you go to the barber at all?
Paul: Now and then. Do and don't.
Reporter: Just to keep it trimmed?
Paul: Yeah, but sometimes we do it ourselves. The thing is, it's really only our eyebrows that are growing upwards.

Reporter: Paul, how do you feel about reports that say you are conceited?
Paul: They're true!

Reporter: Paul, you look like my son.
Paul: You don't look a bit like my mother.

Reporter: What kind of girl do you like, Paul?
Paul: John's wife.
John: Nobody likes a smart aleck!

Reporter: In a recent article, Time magazine put down pop music and they referred to "Day Tripper as being about a prostitute and "Norwegian Wood" as being about a lesbian. Now I just wanted to know what your intent was when you wrote it and your feeling about the Time magazine criticism of the music that is being written today.
Paul: We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all.

George Harrison Quotes

"My earliest recollection is of sitting on a pot of the top of the stairs, having a poop--shouting, 'Finished!'

"George took us to a place which was a vault, with huge barrels of wine around. It was a restaurant and its theme was... well, the bread rolls were shaped like penises, the soup was served out of chamber pots and the chocolate ice cream was like a big turd."

"I remember cutting John's hair one time, and I tried to get him to cut mine. We did it as a joke only the once, but I don't think he cut mine as professionally as I cut his..."

"That was the last time I ever cut anybody's hair." -John

"As a band we were tight. That was one thing to be said about us; we were really tight, as friends. We could argue a lot among ourselves, but we were very, very close to each other, and on the company of other people or other situations, we'd always stick together. If we were arguing, it was about things like space: 'Who's going to sit on the spare sit?'--because everyone else had to sit on the wheel arches or the floor all the way to Scotland or somewhere. We used to get ratty with each other, pushing, protesting, 'It's my turn in the front.'"

"The world used us as an execuse to go mad."

"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."

"Reaching a godlike state is the most important thing, but I've got a job, being a Beatle."

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much"

"We die and go on to a new life where we try again, to get better all the time. That's life. That's death."

"With our love we could save the world."

"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you"

"I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my head it was bound to come out."

"I'm more concerned about the future, but it would take six months of just talking to tell you exactly what I believe in - all the Hindu theories, the Eastern philosophies, and reincarnation."

"I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everyehere, ot I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years."-- Talking about his North American tour in 1974.

"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music -- everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music."

"There's high, and there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'." (1968)

"When you've seen beyond yourself--then you may find peace of mind is waiting there."

"Paul came 'round to my house one evening to look at the guitar manual I had, which I could never work out. We learned a couple of chords from it and managed to play 'Don't You Rock Me, Daddy-O' with two chords."

"We probably loved the Cavern best of anything. We never lost our identification with the audience all the time. We never rehearsed anything, not like the other groups who kept on copying The Shadows."

"You know when they turn over the last page of one section to show you it's come to an end before going on to the next part? That was what Brian's death was like, the end of a chapter."

"I'm not certain about the songs I've written. Looked at from another person's point of view, as pop songs, I like them, but from my point of view, what I really want to do, I don't like what I've done so far."

"The only thing which is important in life is karma, which roughly means actions. Every action has a reaction, which is equal and opposite."

"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 going to be in The Beatles."

"Ghandi says 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."

"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept the records in the record rack, the tea in the tea caddy, and the pot in the pot box."

"As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."

"The nices thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."

"It's funny how people behave nicely when there's a stranger in the room."

"Playing without Ringo is like driving a car on three wheels."

"I didn't like the look of Rory's drummer myself. He looked the nasty one, with his little grey streak of hair. But the nasty one turned out to be Ringo, the nicest of them all."

"What I thought of the cover [the naked Two Virgins cover] then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really--different strokes for different folks."

"I'm really quite simple; I don't want to be in the music business full-time because I'm a gardener. I plant the flowers and watch the river flow."

"All we did for England, selling all that corduroy and making it swing, and all they gave us was a lousy wooden metal with strings through it."

"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.'"

George Martin, at the Beatles first session at EMI in 1962: Is there anything you don't like?
George Harrison: Well, for a start, I don't like your tie.

Reporter: Do you hope to take anything home with you?
George: Rockefeller Center.

Reporter: What do you think of the American girls, as opposed to the British girls?
George: They're the same, only they speak with an accent.

"American girls have massive bottoms." *This isn't from the same press conference, but I thought it was rather funny! Ha ha!*

Reporter: What would you do if the fans broke through the police barriers?
George: We'd die laughing.

Reporter: What was the Beatles' message, after all?
George: Yeah,yeah,yeah!

Reporter: What do you call that hairstyle?
George: Arthur.
Reporter: How do you feel about a night club being named after your hairstyle?
George: I was proud--until I saw the night club.

Reporter: What do you do when you're cooped up in a hotel room between shows?
George: We ice skate!

Reporter: Are you wearing wigs or real hair?
Ringo: Hey, where's the police!
Paul: Take her out!
George: Our hair's real. What about yours, lady?

Reporter: George, why don't you smile?
George: It'll hurt my lips.

..."I'd like to think that the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us." ...

Ringo Starr Quotes

"There was a light at the end of a tunnel that I had to get to, and I came out like that, and then I was born. There was lots of cheering. In fact, my mother used to say to say that because I was born, the second World War started. I don't know what that meant, really; I never understood it, but that's what she used to say. I suppose it was the only way they could celebrate, and it could be true--you never can tell."

"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."

"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'"

"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."

"When we were just becoming famous it was nice to go around to see people knowing you,which is how all famous show-biz people are supposed to do. But it was a drag."

"I think the four of us together, all sort of equal, made us one whole. We're different from each other, yet alike. When you have a single star, or a leader and a backing group, you either take him or leave him. With the four of us, there's more to go on."

"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."

"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."

"It'll be nice to be part of history, some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids."

"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."

"It just carried on; we each carried on being one."

"I don't say anything because nobody believes me when I do."

"I won't go to funerals because I don't believe in them. I believe your soul has gone by the time you get into the limo. She or he's up there or wherever it is. I can't wait to go half the time."

"None of us ever worried about things like the future. I've always just taken chances myself and been lucky. I've always had a few bob in my pocket. There were good and bad nights on tours, but they were really all the same. The only fun part was the hotels in the evening, smoking pot and that."

"Tour was dangerous sometimes, but we never thought about it. A plane did catch fire once in Texas and scared everyone, and once we flew from Liverpool to London with a window open. We were a bit worried when our death was predicted on a plane in the States--that wasn't nice."

"I don't mind if people attack us--because we're so popular, it doesn't matter--but critics can kill records when a lot of people might have enjoyed them. When you're coming up, everyone is all for you, but when you've made it, they want to knock you down if they can."

"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 resturant."

"So this is America. They must be out of their minds!"

"I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs."

"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."

"The future will never come, it will all soon be over tomorrow."

From Press Conferences

Reporter: How tall are you, Ringo?
Ringo: Two feet, nine inches.

Reporter: What did you think when your airline's engine began smoking as you landed today?
Ringo: Beatles, women, and children first!

Reporter: Is it true that you're all writing books, and if so, what's the subject matter?
Paul: No, John's the only one who writes.
Ringo: We haven't learned how yet.

Reporter: Ringo, you didn't look too happy when you got off of the airplane. Was there any reason?
Ringo: If you'd been on it for fifteen hours, how would you look?
John: How would he look, Ringo?
Ringo: I don't know. Look at him now.

Reporter: Sorry to interrupt while you're eating, but what do you think you will be doing in five years time when this is all over?
Ringo: Still eating.

Reporter: What is the biggest threat to your careers? The atom bomb or dandruff?
Ringo: The atom bomb. We've already got dandruff.

Reporter: Ringo, why do you wear two rings on each hand?
Ringo: 'Cause I can't fit them through my nose.

Reporter: 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.

Reporter: What do you think of Beethoven?
Ringo: I love him, especially his poems.

Reporter: Do you like topless bathing suits?
Ringo: We've been wearing them for years.

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.

I'D LIKE TO END UP SORT OF UNFORGETTABLE.

Ohters About the Beatles...

Tom Hanks: "They are the coolest guys in the world! I mean, look! I'm dressed like the cover of Revolver tonight." (At the premeire of That Thing You Do! dressed in a black turtleneck and black pants.)

Eric Idle: "George is mainly famous for being the quiet one, which of course is a joke because he never stops talking..."

John Henson: "Ringo says the Beatles can never play together again because John Lennon is dead. Come on, it didn't stop them before, I mean they did Abbey Road and Paul was dead the whole time!"

Bob Dylan: "They were doing things nobody else was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid. Everybody else thought they were gonna pass right away. But it was obvious to me that they had staying power. I knew they were pointing to the direction where music had to go."

Tommy James: "I remember seeing entire studios being torn apart and put back together again because of a drum sound that the Beatles would get that American studios just couldn't get. What they did, everything they did, became state of art." (Tommy James was the leader of the sixties group Tommy James and the Shondells. They sang "Hanky Panky", "Crimson and Clover", "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mony, Mony", among others.)

Timothy Leary: "I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human spieces, a young race of laughing freemen."

Norman Parkinson, Photographer: "They are the most talented and primitive young men I have ever met. They are the voice of youth."

Donald Zec, Daily Mirror: "Four frenzied Little Lord Fauntlroys who are making �500 [$14,00] every week."

Lydon B. Johnson, American President, to Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Conservative Prime Minister: "I like your advance party, but don't you think they need haircuts?"

Capital Records Spokesman: "These boys are giants!"

Donald Zec, Daily Mirror: "The most devastating male quartet since the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

Frank Sinatra: "I thought the Beatles would die in New York. I was surprised by the reception they got. I was wrong."

New York Times: "The Beatles' vocal quality can be described as hoarsely incoherent with the minimal ennuadto necessary to communicate the schemeatic texts."

Kermit the Frog:"When the Beatles broke up, we knew there was no stopping disco."

(Sorry, I had to put that one up! I love it!)

My History Teacher

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965--I don't know how you can remember that one. You'll have to think of the Beatles or something."

"An artifact is an object used to define the past. That picture in the clock over there of Mr.Starr, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison may be considered as an artifact some day. OK?"

Student: "What does 'helter skelter' mean?"
Teacher: "What? Where?"
Student: "Here it says the camp was in a state of helter skelter. What does that mean?"
Teacher: "Oh, ok, well, that was a song."

Teacher: "How many of you don't like liver and onions?"
[The majority of the class do not raise their hands.]
Teacher: "Aw, come on! How can you not like liver and onions? That's un-American! That's like not liking the Beatles!"

"We're going to do critiques of our writing so we can see our faults. We're doing this for a reason, too, because for all of you that think you're little Gods, you're not--we all make mistakes and it is best that we learn from them."

"Time presses us."

"Time sure flies when you're having fun!"

"ALL ABOARD!" [shouted before we go into his classroom each day...]

"Clear the decks! Quiz time!"

"You can't be anti-war just because your 'hero' wrote a great song that was anti-war. Sometimes are idols aren't always heroic and their views aren't really who we are--that's them. We have to be ourselves, not our idols."

From The Wonder Years.

"Fair is for fairy tales." --Coach Cuplit

"Every problem has its own solution." --Mr. Collins

"Rock and roll, man. Rock and roll. Whoo!" --Larry Beaman

"Do you think Jimi Hendrix asked his parents for a guitar?" --Larry Beaman

"Come on, Paul, we practice once. Do you think the Beatles sounded so great the first time they played?" --Kevin Arnold

Winnie: You know, I think he kind of looks like Paul McCartney.
Paul: He does?

"So, Kev, I heard you quit the old Electric shoes, huh? Thinking about going so-lo?" --Wayne Arnold

"The Electric Shoes broke up a week later and for a time there was talk of a reunion...but it never happened." --Old Kevin