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


• "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." -John Lennon
  
  
• "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." -Ringo Starr
  
  
• "So this is America. They must be out of their minds."
  Ringo Starr, circa 1964, arriving in America for the first time.
  
  
• John: "Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either"
  
  
• "I think that was one of the reasons for not learning the script. We'd just sort of showed up a bit stoned, and sort of smiled a lot and hoped we'd get through it." Help!, Paul
  
  
• George: "The Beatles saved the world from boredom."
  
  
• Paul: "There's a lot of random in our songs...writing, thinking, letting others think of bits--then bam, you've the jigsaw puzzle."
  
  
• "By then we were smoking marijuana for breakfast, at that period, and we were well into marijuana, and nobody could communicate with us because it was just four glazed eyes giggling all the time." Help!, John
• Ringo: "John and Yoko? Some people think they're mad, but he's only being John"
  
  
• John: "Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible."
  
  
• John: "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Paul: Someone from the office rang me up and said, 'Look, Paul, you're dead.' And I said, 'Oh, I don't agree with that.'
  
  
• John: "When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibally pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."
  
  
• RINGO 1968 (joking about the song 'Lady Madonna')
  RINGO: It sounds like Elvis, doesn't it? No, it doesn't sound like Elvis... it IS Elvis. Even those bits where he goes very high.
  
  
• Ringo: "Eskimo-land seems to be about the only place we haven't visited this year."
  
  
• GEORGE 1969 (on the 'Paul Is Dead' rumors) GEORGE: "The rumors are too stupid to bother denying."
  
  
• Ringo: The future will never come, it will all soon be over tomorrow
  
  
• Ringo: I'd like to be sort of comfortable, with a nice house and a few hair dressing businesses. That's a good game.
  
  
• John (during the royal variety show): During the next number i need to ask for your help.......the people in the cheap seats clap your hands, and the rest of you just rattle your jewellery.
  
  
• Paul (1967): I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache
  
  
• George: As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
  
  
• 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: I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
  
  
• Ringo (1969): I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
  
  
• Ringo: I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable
  
  
• George: When you've seen beyond yourself - then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Get Back
  Get Back to Quotes