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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”
My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
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.
It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.
The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.
I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.
I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."
All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.
Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.