Music Quotes

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.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

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.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

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.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

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.

I figure I've probably got a better chance of coming up with a good Paul McCartney song than Oasis has.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

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.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.