Among the many endearing qualities and also, in some cases, imperfections
of the Beatles was their honesty. With all the truly stupid and redundant questions they were asked by the press,
it's always fun to read their numerous replies. Also, sometimes their comments on whatever subject mentioned were hilariously
true...
Here are some instances in which John, Paul, George and Ringo told it like
it was.
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Q: How do you like this welcome?
Ringo: So this is America. They all seem out of their minds.
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Q: Can we look forward to any more Beatle movies?
John: Well, there'll be many more, but I don't know whether you can look forward to them
or not.
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Rap music is just computerized crap. I listen to 'Top of the Pops' and after three songs
I feel like killing someone.
- George
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Q: What will things be like a thousand years from now?
George: A thousand years from now, we'll all be dead.
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If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
- George
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...Instead of penting up emotion or pain, feel it - rather than putting it away for a rainy
day. Why shouldn't we cry? They tell us to stop crying about twelve: 'Be a man.' What the hell's that? Men hurt.
- John
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Q: Ringo, why do you get the most fanmail?
Ringo: I don't know. Perhaps it's because more people write to me.
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Q: Is the pope due to fly in?
John: No, he has to use a plane these days like everybody else.
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...There's about fifty-four wars happening right now, and even if there's a lull in one
of the fifty-four wars they'll show is the re-runs of the Second World War or Pearl Harbor....
- George
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Just like a real rock'n'roll band making a record. We had real saxes and real guitars,
real pianos, real drums, real people playing real songs.
- George, about the album 'Cloud Nine'
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Make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? I can't cure you. You can
cure you.
- John
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I never wanted The Beatles to be has-beens. I wanted to kill the band while it was on top.
- John
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You could make a film, just showing how idiotic everyone else was whenever the Beatles
came to town.
- George
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It's going to be such an incredible, comical thing in 50 years'
time... for people to say, "They broke up 'cos Yoko sat on an amp."
- Paul
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I should have said television is more popular than Jesus; then I might have got away with
it.
- John
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...Up until then pop groups had been milk and honey with the press: "No, I don't smoke",
that kind of thing. And here we were, smoking and drinking and shouting at them. That's what endeared us
to them.
- Ringo
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To be continued!
