Mark Lewisohn > Quotes

“John Lennon was everything his friends wanted to be, and said everything they wanted to say but wouldn't dare. John Lennon always dared.”
― Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In

“George Harrison’s cautionary words are a constant companion—“In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

“The Beatles did everything with down-to-earth humor, honesty, optimism, style, charisma, irreverence, intelligence, and a particularly spiky disdain for falseness.”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years

“This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

“Please rehearse new material,” Brian’s telegram said. They chose to interpret this as “please write new material” and, in this instant, the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership was effectively reborn.”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

“Afternoons were whiled away playing guitars to records, singing, reveling in the joy of chords, finding out how almost every rock song they knew could be played with C, F and G or G7.”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

“And so Lennon-McCartney stood shoulder to shoulder as equals, connected at every level, their considerable talents harmonized, their personalities meshed, their drive unchecked, their goal in focus. They were a union, stronger than the sum of their parts, and everything was possible.”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

“Expelled from the art institute for, among other reasons, drawing nudes as a single straight line, à la Cocteau, he was a young man of 21 well versed in “acts of a rebellion against the squares.”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

“I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton.”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

“The Beatles' music still lifts the spirit and is passed joyfully from generation to generation.”
― Mark Lewisohn

“Hindsight’s perfect vision is seldom clouded by context,”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

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― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, Part 1

“John, Paul and George had been ultraclose since schooldays, sharing everything from outlook to income. They were of one mind on life, and all the stronger for arriving at their unanimity from individual perspectives. Ringo knew he had to tune in, as would they to him.”
― Mark Lewisohn

“All the firms were run by old gents in three-piece suits and short haircuts, characters who’d ridden the disc rodeo in distant exciting days and were now disconnected from the pulse. The top brass at these companies weren’t night-clubbers, they were captains of industry – like EMI’s accomplished chairman,”
― Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, Part 1