Music Quotes
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.
Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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."
By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
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