"My whole school life was a case of 'I couldn't care less'. It was just a joke as far as I was concerned. Art was the only thing I could do, and my headmaster told me that if I didn't go toart school I might as well give up life. I wasn't really keen. I thought it would be a crowd ofold men, but I should make the effort and make something of myself. I stayed for five years doing commercial art. Frankly, I found it all as bad as maths and science. And I loathed those. The funny thing was I didn't even pass art in the GCE. I spent the exam time doing daft cartoons. I got into art school by doing some decent stuff and taking it along to show them."
"ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive?.....It came in a vision- a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them: 'from this day on you are Beatles'"
"From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success."
"I'm never conscious of being a Beatle. Never. I'm just me. I'm not famous."
"Not famous forever? Perhaps a new group will come along and take over from us. It would be so nice to be forgotten."
"What I'd like is to be left completely alone. I'm not a mixer. I've got enough friends to see me through. I just want to be left alone."
"I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over."
"I'm not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate."
"LSD went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time."
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war-for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
"We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?"
"We're going to send two acorns for peace to every world leader from John and Yoko. Perhaps if they plant them and watch them grow they may get the idea into their heads"
"I really thought Love would save us all."
"We're no better than anyone else. Nobody is. We're all the same. Everyone's the same inside."
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. We're more popular that Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were think and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
"I feel higher than the Empire State Building!"-John, after Sean was born
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
"Listen to the color of your dreams."
"Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you.'"
"The day the fans desert us, IŽll be wondering how to pay for my whiskey and cokes"
"I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope"-John Lennon, Dec 8, 1980
"I'm pleased I made it young. Making it young means that I've now got the rest of my life to do what I really want. It would be terrible to spend your whole life before you finally make it, just to found out it's meaningless. We knew it anyway, but we had to find out for ourselves."
"I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dream weaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."
