The Beatles

Best Beatles Quotes

“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
― Lennon-McCartney

“Even if it’s being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it’s still only a temporary thing.”
― George Harrison

“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make…”
― The Beatles

“If you’re listening, I’m the walrus, too.”
― George Harrison

“Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can’t tell people. And it will answer you with things people can’t tell you.”
― Paul McCartney

“And in the end
the love you take
is equal to
the love you make”
― The Beatles

“imagine a world without people”
― John Lennon

“As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.”
― George Harrison

“Let it be.”
― The Beatles

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.”
― John Lennon

“If there hadn’t been an Elvis, there wouldn’t have been the Beatles.”
― John Lennon

“Love is all you need.”
― Beatles

“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

“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
“No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap.”
― John Lennon

“It’s all too much.”
― George Harrison

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.”
― George Harrison

“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

“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

“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

“It’s all in the mind.”
― George Harrison

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
― Paul McCartney

“Whatever gets you through the night”
― 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

“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”
― John Lennon

“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

Nothing is real.”
― John Lennon

“Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.”
― Paul McCartney

“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

“War is over … If you want it.”
― John Lennon

“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

“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

“You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney

“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

“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

“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

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
― John Lennon

“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
― John Lennon

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
― John Lennon

“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
― John Lennon

“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”
― John Lennon

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
― John Lennon

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
― 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

“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

“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

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know. – Paul McCartney, 1969

I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box. – George Harrison

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans – John Lennon

The things is, we’re all really the same person. We’re just four parts of the one. – Paul McCartney

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man. – John Lennon

When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care. – John Lennon

There’s a lot of random in our songs…writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you’ve the jigsaw puzzle. – Paul McCartney

Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow – John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. – John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. – John Lennon

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law its nine-tenths of the problem. –  John Lennon

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. – John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear. – John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that…I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it. – John Lennon

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I’ve learned to write pop songs. – Christina Perri

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. – George Harrison

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly’ – George Harrison

I’d like to end up sort of…unforgettable. – Ringo

Those of you in the cheaper seats, clap your hands. And the rest of you just rattle your jewelry. – John

I’m really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding. – Paul McCartney

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! – John Lennon

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason! – John Lennon

I can’t tell you how much it hurts to lose him. His death is a bitter cruel blow. I really loved the guy. – Paul McCartney, 

I consider that my work won’t be finished until I’m dead and buried, and I hope that’s a long long time. – John Lennon, 

I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs. – Ringo Starr

Love is the answer and you know that for sure – John Lennon

Limitless undying love which
Shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on across the universe
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown – All You Need is Love

A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure. – Girl

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make – End

When you’ve seen beyond yourself — then you may find, peace of mind. – Within You Without You

Have you heard the word is love?
It’s so fine, it’s sunshine. – The Word

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me. – Norwegian Wood

And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.

Limitless undying love which
Shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on across the universe

Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’

If we’d know we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them. George Harrison

They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us. George Harrison

I don’t think the Beatles were that good. I think they’re fine, you know. Ringo’s got the best backbeat I’ve ever heard… Paul is a fine bass player… but he’s a bit overpowering at times. George Harrison

With the Beatles, we’d been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together. Paul McCartney

What good are three Beatles without John? George Harrison

The Beatles exist apart from myself. 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

“America has everything, why should they want us?” – – Harrison, 1964, as the Beatles arrived to conquer America

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.”
– Starr, in 1964, arriving in America for the first time

“We didn’t all get into music for a job! We got into music to avoid a job, in truth – and get lots of girls.”
– McCartney

“I’d rather be a musician than a rockstar.” – Harrison

“One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: ‘It’s only me.’ And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you’d just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.”
– McCartney

“I’ll say it again: I love being in a band, I love playing with other human beings. I’ve never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room. If you could play, I’d play with you all night. But if I’m just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.”

– Starr

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that must have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
 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.”
– 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.”

 McCartney

“While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.”
 Harrison

“I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumours of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.”

 McCartney in 1969

“I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We’ve been together a long time.”

– Harrison in 1969

“I couldn’t put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would’ve stayed with the band.”

– Starr

“We laughed a lot. That’s one thing we forgot about for a few years – laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.”

– Harrison

“I go to restaurants and the groups always play ‘Yesterday.’ I even signed a guy’s violin in Spain after he played us ‘Yesterday.’ He couldn’t understand that I didn’t write the song. But I guess he couldn’t have gone from table to table playing ‘I Am The Walrus.'”

– Lennon

“Sometimes Paul would make us do these really fruity songs. I mean, my god, ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ was so fruity.”

– Harrison

“Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We’re pacifists, but I’m not sure what it means when you’re such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.”

– Lennon

“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”

– Lennon

“What I do is I look for the positive side. I’m the only guy who sat down with John and wrote all those songs. It’s me. (I’ve) got to pinch myself, I can’t believe it. I just feel blessed to have known him and to have experienced his presence so intimately.”

– McCartney

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
John Lennon

Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one.
John Lennon

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
George Harrison

You may say i’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
John Lennon

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
John Lennon

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
John Lennon

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. 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, and I told them they didn’t understand life. “ – john

“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

“Living is easy with eyes closed.” – john
“As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it’s happening.” – john

” Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” – john

“When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care.” – john

“When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.” – john Lennon

“If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place! “ – john

“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.” – john

“My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” – john

“How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?”
– john

“Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.” – john

“Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.” – john

“One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.” – john

“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

“When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.” – john

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.” – john

“There’s nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.” – john

“Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.” – john

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That’s my attitude toward life. So I don’t have any romanticism about any part of my past.” – john

“Nobody controls me. I’m uncontrollable. The only one who controls me is me, and that’s just barely possible.” – john

“What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.” – john

“Time wounds all heels.” – john

“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.” – john

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