The Beatles Quotes

“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake

“The Beatles saved the world from boredom.”
― George Harrison

“Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need.”
― John Lennon

“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Peace and love, peace and love!”
― Ringo Starr

“That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can get from each other and that's determined by how much you're giving to each other. But it all starts within our self and then it spreads to those around us, good and bad. But basically, that's it, I think it's the love that we can generate is equal to the love that we get back ... Amen.”
― George Harrison, Cloud Nine

“Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.”
― George Harrison, I, Me, Mine

“Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”
― John Lennon

“Lady Madonna lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head.”
― Paul McCartney

“I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them."
"What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?"
Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself."
At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.”
― The Beatles

“First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can’t hide. Every single successful love song of the past fifty years can be traced back to ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding. Trust me. I’ve thought a lot about this.

About "I wanna hold your hand" by The Beatles”
― David Levithan

“Life goes on, brah!”
― The Beatles

“I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.”
― Ziggy Marley

“None of it mattered, because there was music.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Blackbird Fly

“Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun”
― Lauren Myracle, Bliss

“Captain Midlands: "I met the real you once."
John (Lennon) the Skrull: "You're meeting the real me now."
Captain Midlands: "I told him to get his bleedin' hair cut.”
― Paul Cornell, X-Men: Wisdom - Rudiments of Wisdom

“I think the sun will shine tomorrow.”
― Brian Epstein, A Cellarful of Noise: The Autobiography of the Man Who Made the Beatles With a New Companion Narrative

“Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.”
― Thomas Dekker, The Pleasant Comodie of Patient Grissill

“The Rolling Stones merging with The Beatles. That’s what I imagine whenever Trump talks about Canada merging with the United States. Would they be waging war with music or would they be waging war against music?”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“The Roller Trip by Stewart Stafford

A psychedelic Rolls-Royce ride,
Lennons and pals giggle inside,
Chauffeur whistles as secrets slip,
Hourglass liquid lets sentience rip.

Supplied narcotics set minds ablaze,
Looping the loop in a magenta haze:
"Ladies & Germs, to a scene obscene!
Set sail to ecstasy we've never seen!"

Wheels whirled wild in a swirling blur,
Yokels mouth breathe where cows concur,
Red light flare, fans storm captive glass,
Mary Jane and Lucy on laughing gas.

Below the speed limit, warp speed fast,
Canary oil slides on a ghost ship's mast,
Paisley spermatozoa in jigging fright,
Tumbling back to earth as day flipped night.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I am always being asked: ‘What are the Beatles really like?’ I never know quite what to say because they are what they are and anyone who has ever seen or heard them either in person, or on radio or screen has, basically, as much chance as I have of knowing what they are like. I believe and I must say it, that they are quite magnificent human beings, utterly honest, often irritating but splendid citizens shining in a very ordinary, not very pleasing world.”
― Brian Epstein, A Cellarful of Noise: The Autobiography of the Man Who Made the Beatles With a New Companion Narrative

“John… Paul… George. And Ringo. Collectively the four most famous names in the world. Extraordinary young men who have directly altered the lives of hundreds, even thousands of people. Who have affected the entire balance of the entertainment industry, who have kicked up so much dust that in all our lifetimes, it will not completely settle.”
― Brian Epstein, A Cellarful of Noise: The Autobiography of the Man Who Made the Beatles With a New Companion Narrative

“Relations had soured to the point that when the Beatles attempted Lennon’s song ‘Across the Universe’ Paul McCartney complained, ‘There’s an oriental influence that shouldn’t really be there’ and pretended that he was talking about music.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four

“Allen Klein had achieved his ambition of managing the Beatles, but in doing so, he blew them apart.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four

“In the wake of Cold Turkey’s, his debut song for Yoko’s Plastic Ono Band, dismal engagement with his listening public, Lennon prepared fresh edits of two songs he’d recorded earlier, What’s the New Mary Jane and You Know My Name, and announced that they would be rush-released as a Plastic Ono Band single. Just as quickly, the project was cancelled, with Apple explaining, ‘It was mutually decided by the Beatles that it sounded more like the Beatles themselves than the Plastic Ono Band’ – not least because both songs were indeed Beatles recordings. McCartney’s reaction to Lennon’s attempted theft can easily be imagined.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four

“Aubergine, Auberga, Life Goes On by Stewart Stafford

The Devil is in the oxtails,
A foetus lacking the superb,
Granny Smith or Granny Shit,
Modulation without the reverb.

A penguin picked up gingerly,
Unaware what had hit his ice,
A Matterhorn tuxedo Cha-Cha,
Casinoed fits from tumbling dice.

O, to have knees of broccoli!
Each eye a glittering ruby grape,
A peacenik parsley neck surrender,
Florid garnish to an eggplant nape.

Forgive me if I go daydreaming,
Your déjà vu’s recurring nightmare,
An offer of hunger strike insomnia,
A gun-to-the-head vigil with flair.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Some said it was on the third spike, some said the fourth, but it was as impossible as finding the bloody shovel on the back of Abbey Road where all the clues proclaimed that Paul was dead”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

“The Lisbon girls: Alone Again (Naturally) Gilbert O'Sullivan

Us: You’ve Got a Friend James Taylor

The Lisbon girls: Where Do the Children Play? Cat Stevens

Us: Dear Prudence The Beatles

The Lisbon girls: Candle In The Wind Elton John

Us: Wild Horses The Rolling Stones

The Lisbon girls: At Seventeen Janis Ian

Us: Time in a Bottle Jim Croce

The Lisbon girls: So Far Away Carole King”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

“Better rather to call him the Beatles great minority.”
― Philip Norman, George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle