Beatles Quotes

With “Sgt. Pepper”, I felt more like a session man because we were interested in making an “album” with strings and brass and “parts”. Everyone says that record is a classic, but it’s not my favorite album.

I think Rubber Soul, really, was the first of the Beatles’ albums which presented a new Beatles to the world. Up till then we had been making albums rather like a collection of singles. Now we were really beginning to think about albums as a bit of art on their own, as entities of their […]

I felt I was playing like #@$%. And those three were really getting on. I had this feeling that nobody loved me; I felt horrible… You know that to play in a band you have to trust each other. (The White Album)

They were rather war-weary during “Beatles For Sale”. One must remember that they’d been battered like mad throughout 1964, and much of 1963. Success is a wonderful thing but it is very, very tiring. They were always on the go. “Beatles for Sale” doesn’t appeal to me very much now, it’s not one of their […]

Who the hell are the Beatles?(Said after his plane was delayed at Heathrow Airport due to the hordes of fans welcoming the Beatles back from an overseas concert.)

Well I’ve never been to England but i kind of like the Beatles.

The Beatles are not merely awful, I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than Godawful.

We were driving the equipment to its limit.

I’m convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

To paraphrase the Thing, the tragic, orange-skinned, rock-like member of a different and altogether more interesting ’60s quartet, the Fantastic Four: Wotta revolting development this is! After watering their musical stock with abysmal solo album after abysmal solo album, weren’t we finally done with these guys? Despite respectful nods – such as the dutiful placement […]