Top 50 Beatle Quotes
#1. People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
Ringo Starr
#2. I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags.
Cynthia Lennon
#3. That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!
Harry Nilsson
#4. When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle' ... it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.
Ringo Starr
#5. I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.
Ravi Shankar
#7. Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle ... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
Bono
#8. People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about ... you have to change.
George Harrison
#9. I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
Paul McCartney
#10. My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.
Ann Hood
#11. If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
Paul McCartney
#12. Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.
Jon Landau
#13. The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
George Harrison
#14. John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
Kurt Cobain
#15. Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.
Lester B. Pearson
#16. There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?
John Lennon
#17. The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for a cover-up of Paul's having died in a car accident.
Jared C. Wilson
#18. We was on our way to fame, got matching suits and Beatle boots.
Frank Zappa
#19. That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.
George Best
#20. I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.
Steve Landes
#21. Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.
Don Van Vliet
#22. Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.
George Harrison
#23. When I was a kid, I was playing in various bands - amateur bands, garage bands, weekend bands, you name it, around the area. At some point, I just wanted to try the whole 'Beatle tribute band' thing, so I found a local band that was doing that.
Steve Landes
#24. I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.
James McCartney
#25. If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.
Bruce Springsteen
#26. George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.
Ray Comfort
#27. It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or ... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.
George Harrison
#28. My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#29. I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?
Michael Davis
#30. Paul McCartney, the ex-Beatle Brady's mom used to call Old Spaniel Eyes, is getting a medal at the White House. Why is it, Brady sometimes wonders, that people with only a little talent get so much of everything? It's just another proof that the world is crazy.
Stephen King
#31. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.
Christina Ricci
#32. The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in ... The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.
John Lennon
#33. The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.
Ringo Starr
#34. I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.
George Harrison
#35. Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.
Olivia Sudjic
#36. Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
Al Yankovic
#38. I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.
Tom Felton
#39. Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.
John Lennon
#40. Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of former Beatle John Lennon and the mother of singer Julian Lennon, died April 1 at her home in Spain. She was 75.
Anonymous
#41. Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
Paul McCartney
#42. As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc.
George Harrison
#43. Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.
George Harrison
#44. We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.
Lou Gramm
#45. Bought all the Beatle records, I sounded just like Paul.
Mac Davis
#46. That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
Alan Parsons
#47. As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.
Shana Alexander
#48. They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.
George Harrison
#49. Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.
Sheryl Crow
#50. Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
Ringo Starr
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