Quotes & Interviews



Interviews

Press: "Are you married?"
George: "No, I'm George."

Press: "How did you find America?"
John: "Turn left at Greenland."

Press: "What do you think of Detroit's plan to stamp out the Beatles?"
John: "We've got our own plans to stamp out Detroit."

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."

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

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 also said 'heavens!'"
John: "Couldn't have said that, Paul. More than four letters."

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

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'll sell in England, you know."

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

Press: "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."

Press: "Don't you ever get a haircut?"
George: "I had one yesterday."
Ringo: "You should have seen him the day before."

Press: "How do you add up success?"
All four: "Money!"

Press: "What will you do when Beatlemania subsides?"
John: "Count the money."

Press: "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 did you think when your airplane's engine began smoking as you landed today?"
Ringo: "Beatles, women, and children first!"

Press: "What excuse do you have for your collar-length hair?"
John: "Well, it just grows out yer head."

Press: "Which of you is really bald?"
John: "We're all bald. And I'm deaf and dumb."

Press: "Who in the world would the Beatles like to meet more than anyone else?"
Ringo: "The real Santa Claus."

Press: Will you sing something for us?
All four: "NO!"
Press: "Can you sing at all?"
John: "No, we need money first."

Press: "Would you ever accept a girl in your group if she could sing, play an instrument, and wear the Beatle haircut?"
Ringo: "How tall is she?"

Press: "Why don't you smile, George?"
George: I'll hurt my lips.

Press: "Why is it that you Ringo get more fan mail than the others?"
Ringo: "I dunno. I suppose it's because more people write me."

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."

Press: "Does show business run in your family?"
John: "Well, me dad always used to say that me mum was a great performer."

Press: "What do you do when you're in your (hotel) rooms?"
George: "We ice skate."

Press: "I`ld like to direct this question to, er, Messers Lennon and McCartney. In a recent article 'Time' magazine put down pop-music and they referred to 'Daytripper' as being about a Prostitute and 'Norwegian Wood' as about as being about a lesbian. Now I just want to know what your intent was when you wrote it and what your feeling is about the 'Time' magazine criticism of the music that is being written today?"
Paul: "We were just trying to write songs about Prostitutes an' Lesbians, that's all"

Press: "I'm sure you've all heard of the many Beatle burnings and Beatle bonfires, and I was wondering, do you think American girls are fickle?"
Ringo: "All girls are fickle."

Press: "Gentleman, what do you think would happen to you four if you came to an appearance without the armored truck, and without the Police?"
Ringo: "We'd get in a lot easier."

Press: Asks about George and Paul and if they have anyone in mind to marry.
Paul: "We're not gettin married now."
Press: Thanks, that's all I wanted to know."
Paul: ..."We're gonna get an answering machine for that question. We're both queers anyway you know."



Quotes by The Beatles


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

"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."- John

"Lots of people who have complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war-for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. Wouldn't You?"- John

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

"When I was a Beatle I thought we were the best ******* group in the ******* world, and believing that is what made us what we were." - John

"We always got screams in Scotland. I suppose they haven't got much else to do up there." - John

"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

"John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof."- Cynthia Lennon

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

"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 genius...I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care."- John

"John loved and prayed for the human race. Please tell people to pray the same for him. Remember that he had deep faith in love and that, though he has now joined the greater force, he is still with us." - Yoko, Dec. 1980

"I consider that my work won't be finished until I'm dead and buried, and I hope that's a long long time." - John, Dec. 1980

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot." - John

"I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not."- John

"Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible." - John

"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." - John

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

"It's hard to follow my own act. But the only answer to that would be to give up after the beatles. I had two alternatives. Give up or carry on"- Paul

"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."- Paul

"I can't tell you how much it hurts to lose him. His death is a bitter cruel blow. I really loved the guy." - Paul, Dec. 1980

"The thing is, we're all really the same person. We're just four parts of the one."- Paul

"A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart." - Paul

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

"There is one thing I used to regret and feel guilty about. When Ringo joined us I used to act all big time with him because I'd been in the business a bit longer and felt superior. I was a know-all. I'd been in the sixth form and thought I'd read a bit, you know. I began putting him off me, and me off me."- Paul

"I'm just the conservative of the four of us. Not compared with outside people. Compared to my family I'm a freak-out."- Paul

"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."- George

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

"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"."- Ringo

"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"- Ringo

"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."- Ringo

"I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable." - Ringo Starr



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