Music Quotes
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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.
When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
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.
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."
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
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.
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.
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.
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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.
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