Tag: foresight

– “That guitar is okay but you’ll never make a living with it” – John’s Aunt Mimi
– “What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.” – John Lennon
– “We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic.” – Ringo Starr
– “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.” – John Lennon, 1970
– “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.” – Paul McCartney, 1969
– “I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.” – George Harrison, 1969

– “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one” – The Catcher in the Rye

– “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon

– “We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?” – John Lennon

– “I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, «You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly»” – George Harrison

– “I am not the Beatles. I’m me.Paul isn’t the Beatles…The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.” – John Lennon

– “The things is, we’re all really the same person. We’re just four parts of the one.” – Paul McCartney

– “John had his thing, and Paul had his, and together there were two different things all together. But they fit.” – Billy Preston

– “When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care.” – John Lennon

“As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.” – George Harrison

– “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.” – John Lennon in a 1966 interview

– “I’m not saying we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.” – John Lennon

– “There’s a lot of random in our songs…writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you’ve the jigsaw puzzle.” – Paul McCartney

– “Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow” – John Lennon