What you will find here are some gear quotes from the Fab Four

I have found so many quotes that in order for you to find read them all and not get confuzed I've set them in 3 categories. Below are the interview quotes. On the link below are one-liners, and on the link below that are just other gear quotes. More to come soon...


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• JOHN: "I thought 'Cheeky' was universal. I thought it was English, and the other day I got a couple of letters saying, 'From your film, John... what does Cheeky mean?' And I thought it was obvious it just means sort of hard-faced, only light-heartertedly. You know, sort of 'the nerve of that fellow.'"
  RINGO: "It's like, it's a lighthearted 'get lost,' I'd say."
  JOHN: "I say to him 'gear costume,' which means 'I admire your costume greatly.' And he says 'Swap' in a rather effeminate voice, meaning exchange (costumes). And I says to him 'cheeky' meaning hard-faced naughty boy, you see. Because he is isn't he? I mean you could tell by the way he looked at him."
  RINGO: "Oh! Oh, a very bad boy."
  
  
• Press: Ringo, why do you wear two rings on each hand?
  Ringo: Because I can't fit them through my nose.
  
  
• Press: Does it bother you that you can't hear what you sing during concerts?
  John: No, we dont mind. We've got the records at home.
  
  
• Press: Is it true that none of you can read or write music?
  Paul: None of us can read or write music. The way we work is like, we just whistle. John will whistle at me and I'll whistle back at him.
  
  
• Q: "Ringo, how do you feel about the 'Ringo for President' campaign?"
  RINGO: "Well, it's rather... It's marvelous!"
  Q: "Assuming you were President of the United States, would you make any political promises?"
  RINGO: "I don't know, you know. I'm not sort of politically minded."
  JOHN: "Aren't you?"
  RINGO: "No, John. Believe me."
  PAUL: "I think you should be President."
  JOHN: "I saw you dancing with Bessie Braddock."
  Q: "How do the other guys feel about Ringo being nominated for President?"
  JOHN: "We think he should win, you know."
  PAUL: "Yes, we think he should."
  GEORGE: "Definitely in favor."
  Q: "Ringo, would you nominate the others as part of your cabinet?"
  RINGO: "Well, I'd have to... wouldn't I?"
  GEORGE: "I could be the door."
  RINGO: "I'd have George as treasurer."
  JOHN: "I could be the cupboard."
  RINGO: "He looks after the money."
  
  
• Press: Do you worry about smoking in public? Do you think it might set a bad example for your younger fans?
  George: We don't set examples. We smoke because we've always smoked. Kids don't smoke because we do. They smoke because they want to. If we changed we'd be putting on an act.
  Ringo (whispering): We even drink.
  
  
• Press (to George): Hi, you're not married.
  George: No, I'm George.
  
  
• Press: How come you were turned back by immigration?
  John: We had to be deloused.
  
  
• Press: How did you find America?
  John: Turn left at Greenland.
  
  
• Press: How does it feel to be putting on the whole world?
  Ringo: We enjoy it.
  Paul: We aren't really putting you on.
  George: Just a bit of it.
  John: How does it feel to be put on?
  
  
• Press: What did you think when your airplane's engine began smoking as you landed today?
  Ringo: Beatles, women, and children first!
  
  
• Press: What do you look like with your hair back on your foreheads?
  John: You just don't do that, mate. You feel naked if you do that, like you don't have any trousers on.
  
  
• Press: What is the biggest threat to your careers, the atom bomb or dandruff?
  Ringo: The atom bomb. We've already got dandruff.
  
  
• Press: Why are your speaking voices different from your singing voices?
  George: We don't have a musical background.
  
  
• Q: "Is the haircut an act by accident or design?" JOHN: "Accident."
  Q: "You didn't have time to get your hair cut in the first place?"
  JOHN: "No, it just happened, you know. Ringo's was by design because he joined later."
  RINGO: "Yeah, I designed it." (laughter)
  
  
• Q: "You Beatles have conquered five continents. What would you like to do next?"
  BEATLES: (in unison) "...conquer Six!"
  (laughter)
  
• 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.
  
  
• Reporter: How many of you are bald, that you have to wear those wigs?
  George: I'm bald.
  Paul: Don't tell anyone, please.
  John: We're all bald, yeah. And deaf and dumb too.
  
  
• Reporter: Why do you think that you're so popular all of a sudden?
  John: I don't know. It must be the weather.
  
  
• Reporter: What would you do if the fans got past the police lines?
  George: We'd die laughing.
  
  
• Reporter: What do you call your hair-style?
  George: Arthur
  
  
• Reporter: How do you feel about the nightclub, Arthur, named after your hair-style?
  George: I was proud...until I saw the nightclub.
  
  
• Reporter: How do you stand in the draft?
  John: About 5'11"
  
  
• Reporter: "What do you think is the most important element of your success... the personal appearances, or the records?"
  John: "Records. Records have always been the main thing. P.A.'s follow records. Our first records were made, and then we appeared."
  Reporter: "Followed closely by Beatle Dolls. Have you seen them?"
  George: They're actually life size, you know."
  Reporter: "The ones we've seen are only about five inches high."
  Paul: "Well, we're midgets, you see."
  Q: "How does it make you feel to have millions of effigies of yourselves decorating bedsides all over the world? Don't you feel honored to have been immortalized in plastic? After all, there's no such thing as a Frank Sinatra doll, or an Elvis Presley doll."
  GEORGE: "Who'd want an ugly old crap doll like that?"
  Q: "Would you prefer a George doll, George?"
  GEORGE: "No, but I've got a Ringo doll at home."
  Q: "Did you know that you're probably the first public figures to have dolls made of them..."
  PAUL: "...They're making us into a cartoon, too, in the states. It's a series."
  JOHN: "The highest achievement you could ever get."
  PAUL: "We feel proud and humble."
  
  
  
  
  
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