“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are
afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all
that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need
to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our
imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our
ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all
hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted
vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in
fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind.
Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and
now?”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must
have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are
eternal.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's
no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the
now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and
we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison
― George Harrison
“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know
that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
― Paul McCartney
― Paul McCartney
“For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your
hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“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.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
― Ringo Starr
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
― Ringo Starr
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold
Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking
brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what
everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a
hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna
hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every
single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I
Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those
unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.”
― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney
― Paul McCartney
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make
people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I
know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
― Kurt Vonnegut
“When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
there will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
there will be an answer. let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....
And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....”
― Paul McCartney
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
there will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
there will be an answer. let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....
And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....”
― Paul McCartney
“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darlin' it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' the smiles returning to their faces
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Little darlin' I feel the ice is slowly meltin'
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been clear
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right”
― George Harrison, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darlin' it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' the smiles returning to their faces
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Little darlin' I feel the ice is slowly meltin'
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been clear
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right”
― George Harrison, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and
the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave
us a glimpse of the possibility.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”
― Linda McCartney, Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat
― Linda McCartney, Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat
“When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I
grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the
assignment; I told them they didn't understand life.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I
said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I
apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what
I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to
apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap.”
― John Lennon
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap.”
― John Lennon
“…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know
what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular
than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and
ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do
not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet
most of the audience still sleeps.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da
Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul,
George, and Ringo." He pauses, seeing the blank look on my face and
groaning when he says, "Christ, Ever, the Beatles!" He shakes his head
and laughs. "God, you make me feel old.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore
― Alyson Noel, Evermore
“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of
evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to
create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”
― Timothy Leary
― Timothy Leary
“Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to
dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that
cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian
clothes are better.”
― George Harrison
― George Harrison
“...it was not simply a matter of musical taste; whether you
preferred the Beatles or [the Rolling] Stones said much about your
personality and character. People who were happy, intelligent,
well-adjusted, popular, clean, decent and punctual tended to be Beatles
fans. Those who were evil, cretinous, scabby, drug-ridden, filthy,
criminal perverts liked the Stones.
As for your author, I personally take no side in the controversy, remaining strictly neutral.”
― Lewis Grossberger
As for your author, I personally take no side in the controversy, remaining strictly neutral.”
― Lewis Grossberger
“It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely
so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all
come from? And where do they all belong?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“An entire generation now regards Nirvana as its version of the
Beatles. They are of course hopelessly mistaken, but I would not
recommend you tell them so.”
― Lewis Grossberger
― Lewis Grossberger
“Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed
because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You
know, everything needs to be left alone.”
― George Harrison, I, Me, Mine
― George Harrison, I, Me, Mine
“I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need
for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight.
It just sounded cool.”
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
“George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John
showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I
remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the
Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty
Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey
Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones,
and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used
it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate,
just horrible, y'know.”
― Alan Goldsher
― Alan Goldsher
“John was the ne'er-do-well father, Paul was the hardworking
mother trying to keep everything together. George was a slightly surly
teenager, and Ringo was this happy-go-lucky young kid with his model
airplane. That's really how it was.”
― Ray Connolly
― Ray Connolly
“We stood there for a minute or two, with John swaying gently
against my arm. 'I'm feeling better,' he announced. Then he looked up at
the stars. 'Wow..' he intoned. 'Look at that! Isn't that amazing?".
I followed his gaze. The stars did look good but they didn't look that good. It was very unlike John to be over the top in that way. I stared at him. He was wired-pin-sharp and quivering, resonating away like a human tuning fork.
No sooner had John uttered his immortal words about the stars than George and Paul came bursting out on the roof. They had come tearing up from the studio as soon as they found out where we were.
They knew why John was feeling unwell. Maybe everyone else did, too - everyone except for father-figure George Martin here!
It was very simple. John was tripping on LSD. He had taken it by mistake, they said - he had meant to take an amphetamine tablet. That hardly made any difference, frankly; the fact was that John was only too likely to imagine he could fly, and launch himself off the low parapet that ran around the roof. They had been absolutely terrified that he might do so.
I spoke to Paul about this night many years later, and he confirmed that he and George had been shaken rigid when they found out we were up on the roof. They knew John was having a what you might call a bad trip. John didn't go back to Weybridge that night; Paul took him home to his place, in nearby Cavendish Road. They were intensely close, remember, and Paul would do almost anything for John. So, once they were safe inside, Paul took a tablet of LSD for the first time, 'So I could get with John' as he put it- be with him in his misery and fear.
What about that for friendship?”
― George Martin, Unknown Book 9841466
I followed his gaze. The stars did look good but they didn't look that good. It was very unlike John to be over the top in that way. I stared at him. He was wired-pin-sharp and quivering, resonating away like a human tuning fork.
No sooner had John uttered his immortal words about the stars than George and Paul came bursting out on the roof. They had come tearing up from the studio as soon as they found out where we were.
They knew why John was feeling unwell. Maybe everyone else did, too - everyone except for father-figure George Martin here!
It was very simple. John was tripping on LSD. He had taken it by mistake, they said - he had meant to take an amphetamine tablet. That hardly made any difference, frankly; the fact was that John was only too likely to imagine he could fly, and launch himself off the low parapet that ran around the roof. They had been absolutely terrified that he might do so.
I spoke to Paul about this night many years later, and he confirmed that he and George had been shaken rigid when they found out we were up on the roof. They knew John was having a what you might call a bad trip. John didn't go back to Weybridge that night; Paul took him home to his place, in nearby Cavendish Road. They were intensely close, remember, and Paul would do almost anything for John. So, once they were safe inside, Paul took a tablet of LSD for the first time, 'So I could get with John' as he put it- be with him in his misery and fear.
What about that for friendship?”
― George Martin, Unknown Book 9841466
“George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a
bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a
guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle
on his head.”
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
“Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers
are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or
feel the sting of the shuriken!”
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
“(The Skrull Beatles discuss their future.)
"So when this is all over, are we still gonna be the Skrull Beatles then?"
"I quite fancy being the Skrull Monkees for a bit."
"The dialogue's easier."
"As long as I get to be Peter Tork.”
― Paul Cornell, Wisdom: Rudiments of Wisdom
"So when this is all over, are we still gonna be the Skrull Beatles then?"
"I quite fancy being the Skrull Monkees for a bit."
"The dialogue's easier."
"As long as I get to be Peter Tork.”
― Paul Cornell, Wisdom: Rudiments of Wisdom
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