At the beginning I was annoyed [with John], jealous because of Yoko, and afraid about the breakup of a great musical partnership. It took me a year to realize they were in love." [Paul]
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"Paul can be very cynical and much more biting than me when he's driven to it. Of course, he's got more patience, but he can carve people up in no time at all, when he's pushed. He hits the nail on the head and doesn't beat about the bush, does Paul."
John
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G: Maybe we should have a divorce.
P: Well, I said that at the last meeting. But it’s getting nearer, you know?
J: Who’d have the children?
P: Dick James
J: Oh yeah
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One of my favourite interactions for the quick wit of J & P
“I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”
JOHN LENNON
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‘I am the f&$@jng click’ would have to be up there as his best quotable line. That and ‘I’m warning you with peace and love’
“The past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute."
George Harrison
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“My occupation is syncopation”
Ringo Starr
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Yes I agree. He poetly captures the difference between the private and public face
Paul: "Haven't you written anything else?"
John: "No.”
Paul: "We're gonna be faced with a crisis."
John: "When I'm up against the wall, Paul, you'll find I'm at my best."
Paul: "Yeah, I know, John, I know… But I wish you'd come up with the goods."
Get Back Sessions
8th Jan 1969
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I haven’t got the patience to practise to become a “perfect” guitarist you know. I’m more interested in the combination of my voice and the guitar I know and to write songs than I am in the instrument. So I never go through a day hardly without playing it whether I’m performing or not you know.
John
I reading all the lyrics of Beatles’ songs and finding, or imagining, all kinds of hidden meanings. One phrase in particular staggered me: ‘keeping her face in a jar by the door,’ from ‘Eleanor Rigby’. This seemed to me pure surrealism.
Alan Aldridge, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
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“I remember going into the studio with him and watching how he worked. It was like a quilt—he just wove things together. I’d sit back and go, ‘You couldn’t buy this. What an opportunity.’”
Joe English in The McCartney Legacy 2
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And I'd see them six months later and their hair would be going thin and they'd be getting fatter. They were becoming old men, while I was with the Beatles.
I just keep going.
2/3 ..I'm still a bit of an adolescent; I keep changing all the time. But I don't want to stop doing that.
All my old friends from Liverpool got jobs after they left school.
‘People have told me that the album's title indicates I like to struggle with things in my life. But I've never seen my life that way. The record's full of songs and words. That's all.
At least, that's all I was trying to do. I don't any feel different now than I ever have 1/2… #johnlennon #Beatles
“Mind Games was actually a book that somebody sent me, which I wrote an intro to: 'I have read three important and revolutionary books in the last three years: Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, Arthur Janov's Primal Scream, and now Mind Games” - John
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Breaking normal proceedings to share with you this great Glynn Johns interview. Chatty and very informative about who he has worked with and his recording methods. Enjoy!
youtu.be/UZ8BA25T5GA?...
“The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.” George Harrison
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Mick Fleetwood talks about the closeness of Lennon and McCartney, 1990.
"I'm very good at forgetting who I am, because as far as I'm concerned Paul McCartney is a name given at birth and at the beginning of The Beatles he split off into a celebrity and I remained as me."
May 1997
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“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.”
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he's such an artistic force
“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.”
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I'm about halfway through McCartney Legacy Volume 2 - having just read about Jeff Cummin's artwork on Wings Over America so I was delighted to see this on the interweb this morning
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Celebrating Paul McCartney’s 83rd birthday with quotes throughout the day
“I don’t work at being ordinary”
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Paul and Brian
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.murder, dressed in drag, been in prison, seduced the niece of a priest, blown up a war memorial and all sorts of things like that. I can’t really blame them but it would have been marvellous" – Joe Orton
The Beatles: Paperback Writer: 40 Years of Classic Writing" by Mike Evans
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"I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like … we finally get this little note from Brian Epstein, that it wasn’t suitable for the Beatles … by page 25 they had committed adultery....... 1/2
"Most people have come to know the time that John Lennon & I spent together as The Lost Weekend. I am always surprised by how many people are under the impression that our time together lasted only a single weekend" - May Pang
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