Top 47 Beatles Quotes

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The Beatles are one of the most famous bands to ever exist. The British Invasion literally took over the world. With that in mind, check out the top 47 Beatles quotes.

#47 – 40. Beatles Quotes

47. I’m not saying we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this. – John Lennon

46. John had his thing, and Paul had his, and together there were two different things all together. But they fit. – Billy Preston

45. You’re all geniuses, and you’re all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like. – John Lennon

44. I thought of nothing else but rock ‘n’ roll; apart from sex and food and money–but that’s all the same thing, really. – John Lennon

43. 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

42. 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

41. 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

40. We’ve been on our peace gig, as we call it, for a year solid. And people say, ‘Do you think it’s having any effect?’ I can’t answer that. It’s like asking me in the Cavern, ‘Are you gonna make it?’ In the back of my mind I thought, I’m gonna make it, but I couldn’t lay it on the line. And I think that peace is more tangible than Beatles. – John Lennon

#39 – 30. Beatles Quotes

39. The Beatles’ story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It’s about rebellion, it’s about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n’ roll entertainment system. – Bob Spitz

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

37. 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

36. I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything. – Regina Spektor

35. Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. – John Lennon

34. The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn’t mean that we’re rebellious. – Davy Jones

33. 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. – John Lennon

32. I’ve never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I’m here because it happened. But I didn’t do anything to make it happen apart from saying ‘Yes’ – Ringo Starr

31. 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. – John Lennon

30. I’ve heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes. – George Harrison

#29 – 20. Beatles Quotes

29. 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

28. If The Beatles or the 60’s had a message, it was ‘Learn to swim. And once you’ve learned – swim!’ – John Lennon

27. Nobody controls me. I’m uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that’s just barely possible. – John Lennon

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

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

24. Mr. and Mrs. McCartney are vegans, and what they stand for is the complete elimination of the killing of anything that is breathing. – Danny Williams

23. You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside. – John Lennon

22. I am not the Beatles. I’m me.Paul isn’t the Beatles…The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate. – John Lennon

21. 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

20. The Beatles weren’t like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band. – Gene Simmons

#19 – 10. Beatles Quotes

19. We went to Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. We had this huge suite of rooms at The Plaza Hotel, with a TV in each room, and we had radios with earpieces. This was too far out. – Ringo Starr

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

17. And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. – The Beatles

16. It’s hard to follow my own act. But the only answer to that would be to give up after the Beatles. I only had two alternatives. Give up or carry on. – Paul McCartney

15. When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there’s no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma. – Jack Black

14. My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. – Steve Jobs

13. I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we’d done it in England, there’s no reason why we couldn’t do it in America too. – John Lennon

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

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

10. The Beatles, Paul, John, George and Ringo have done more for the fall of Communism than any other western institution. – Artemy Troitsky

#9 – 1. Beatles Quotes

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

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

7. We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once? – John Lennon

6. 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 on watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. – John Lennon

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

4. 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

3. Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity. – John Lennon

2. At the beginning I was annoyed with [John], jealous because of Yoko, and afraid about the breakup of a great musical partnership. It took me a year to realize they were in love. – Paul McCartney

1. 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

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