“Anyone who doesn't fear God, has no idea at all about Him.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“War here, war there, crime everywhere, yet nobody cares about nothin’ but the Beatles and some guy who paints giant soup cans and sells them as art, this movie star, that movie star, blah-blah-blah. The world’s a nuthouse. It’s insane. It’s scary. It’s—”
“—those Bilderbergers,” I suggested.
“Ain’t truer words ever been spoken.”
Source: The City
“I did not listen to the Beatles or watch Ed Sullivan on TV. I wasn't interested in fun or popularity back then.”
Source: Eileen
“Oh, being alive was heaven, back in 1967. That's honestly how it felt.”
Source: The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs
“Relations had soured to the point that when the Beatles attempted Lennon’s song ‘Across the Universe’ Paul McCartney complained, ‘There’s an oriental influence that shouldn’t really be there’ and pretended that he was talking about music.”
Source: You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four
“Allen Klein had achieved his ambition of managing the Beatles, but in doing so, he blew them apart.”
Source: You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four
“In the wake of Cold Turkey’s, his debut song for Yoko’s Plastic Ono Band, dismal engagement with his listening public, Lennon prepared fresh edits of two songs he’d recorded earlier, What’s the New Mary Jane and You Know My Name, and announced that they would be rush-released as a Plastic Ono Band single. Just as quickly, the project was cancelled, with Apple explaining, ‘It was mutually decided by the Beatles that it sounded more like the Beatles themselves than the Plastic Ono Band’ – not least because both songs were indeed Beatles recordings. McCartney’s reaction to Lennon’s attempted theft can easily be imagined.”
Source: You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four
“I think I'm supposed to "take a sad song and make it better," but that's beyond my musical ability”
Source: The Look
“This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and the ground for any experience we might wish to call 'spiritual.' No myths need be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need be worshiped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation. No tribal fictions need be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Let it be.”