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

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

I’ll play what you want or I won’t play at all. 

I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth. 

If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days. 

"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'."

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him. 

It's gonna sound like them if it is them. It sounds like them now, that's what I think. It doesn't, when you say it sounds like the Beatles, people may expect it sound like y'know 65 or 68 or 9 or Abbey Road. But the whole technical thing that has taken place between 1969 and 1996 is we are now in 1996 so technically it sounds more like now. 

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

My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great. 

Hippies are so phoney and fake. 
 
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" -George Harrison (Any Road) 
"The nicest thing is to open up newspapers and not find yourself in them." 

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

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

"You see your pictures and read about George Harrison... but you don't actually think, 'Oh that's me! There I am in the paper!' Its funny. Its just as though its a different person."

Ringo Starr
"I want to end up sort of unforgettable."

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

"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."

"We thought that if we lasted for two or three years, that would be fantastic." 

"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.'" 

"So this is America. They must be out of their minds."
- Ringo Starr, 1964, arriving in America for the first time. 

"I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do."

Q: Ringo, why do you wear two rings on each hand?
Ringo: Because I can't get them through my nose.

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

Q: Ringo, you didn't look too happy when you got off the airplane. Was there any reason?
Ringo: If you'd been on it fifteen hours, how would you look?

Q: What do you think you've contributed to the music business?
Ringo: Records.

"I don't mind talking or smiling. It's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth." 

"I think the four of us together, all sort of equal, make us one big whole. We're different from each other, yet alike. When you have a single leader and a backing group, you either take him or leave him. With four, you can associate with one of us and still like the rest of us."

"I like kids; I used to be one." 

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

Paul McCartney

"I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude."

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

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

"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." 

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

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

"Animals are your friends, don't eat them!" 

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

"Fame, in the end, is getting off your parking fine because the attendent wants your autograph, and fame is being interrupted when you're eating by a 50-year-old american lady with a pony-tail. The four of us are known to almost everybody in the world, but we don't feel that famous." 

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

"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 McCartney, December of 1980
John
"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 than 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."
- John Lennon 1966

"Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it." 
- John Lennon, 1966

"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
- John Lennon, 1963, at the high point of the group's set during the Royal Variety Perfomance before members of the British Royal Family

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." 

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." 

"The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you." 

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

"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." 

"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.'" 

"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 and help me,' you just scream." 

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!" 

"It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man." 

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear."

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." 

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

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

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

Q: Do you plan to record any anti-war songs?
John: All our songs are anti-war.

"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 Lennon, December 1980