The White Album Quotes

#1. 'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

Vincent Bugliosi

#2. In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#3. 'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.

Mark Hoppus

#4. They talked about the White Album on the way to school, but just as an excuse to stare at each other's mouths. You'd think they were lip-reading.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

Ringo Starr

#6. I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

Nikki Sixx

#7. I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

Henry Rollins

#8. Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

Anders Holm

#9. We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

Meg White

#10. You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

Ron White

#11. When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.

Chris Rock

#12. As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

Henry Rollins

#13. Thank God it's not, or your father would never have been conceived." "Ew! Grandma, ew! Don't say things like that! How can you say things like that with your face? Your actual grandma face? You're supposed to be all innocent and baking cookies and forgetting that sex was ever a part of your life.

Seanan McGuire

#14. I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.

Adam Pally

#15. I don't mind being called a weirdo.

Nicki Minaj

#16. People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Peter Gabriel

#17. If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Lauryn Hill

#18. Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future."
Cooper Interstellar

Steven Stennett

#19. No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

Milan Kundera

#20. I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

Nuno Bettencourt

#21. The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

Martin Buber

#22. To find yourself in a land that seems ungodly is to seek God for the mantle to extend kingdom principles there

Sunday Adelaja

#23. I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

Edmund White

#24. Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

Dalai Lama

#25. The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because it felt like they were saying goodbye.

Lori Lansens

#26. Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

David Rockefeller

#28. We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

Waylon Jennings

#29. Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

Jack White

#30. Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

Albert Camus

#31. Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

David Lee Roth