I still believe that all you need is love.
Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.
I'll probably be popped off by some loony. His reply when asked in the 1960's how he expected he would die.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. Royal Variety Performance in London (4 November 1963) attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. John had intended to say "fucking jewelry", but was persuaded against doing so by Paul McCartney and the group's manager Brian Epstein.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
He's not even the best drummer in The Beatles! When asked whether or not he believed Ringo Starr to be the best drummer in the world.
I really thought that love would save us all.
I don't stand back and judge - I do.
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we’ve been through the drug scene, man, and there’s nothing like being straight.
I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that 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. News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. Interview for KFRC RKO Radio (8 December 1980).
