Before Elvis there was nothing.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.
When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.
The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
All you need is love.
Elvis died the day he went into the army.
It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that
I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control
'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.
"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."
We were cowards when we sacked him.
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