Occupation: Musician Birth: June 18, 1942
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past..
I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course..
Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called t….
It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take….
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts..
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside..
I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest..
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with any….
Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Some….
Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes..
the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard..
I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up ….
I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need..
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death..
My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It w….
People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”.
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart..
I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'.
No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way..
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley..