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Title: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Sarit on May 22, 2005, 09:29:33 PM
Hey guys!
I'm looking for a Beatles project Beatles quotes, not from songs.

1. About each other (i.e George about John etc)
2. About being famous

I'm looking mostly for funny jokes.
What are you favorites?

Sarit
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: on May 30, 2005, 06:38:45 PM
Well, I don't know if this qualifies, but in AHDN:



Interview: What do you call that hairstyle?

George: Arthur.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: on June 01, 2005, 08:16:54 PM
q: how did you find america?
john:turn left at greenland!

(after pauls performance of yesterday, live)
john: thankyou ringo, that was wonderful
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: on June 01, 2005, 09:35:14 PM
Quote from: lennonlegend
q: how did you find america?
john:turn left at greenland!

(after pauls performance of yesterday, live)
john: thankyou ringo, that was wonderful

That made me laugh.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: JimColyer on June 16, 2005, 01:18:08 AM
"Before Elvis, there was nothing."...John Lennon
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Mendips on June 17, 2005, 02:47:39 PM
Sad quote

John ~ "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour, trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."
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Fun quote
Reporter: What did you think when your airplane's engine began smoking as you landed today?

Ringo: Beatles, Women, and children first!

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John: We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship"

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John:
"Love is a promise,
Love is a souvenir,
Once given never forgotten,
Never let it disappear."

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Paul: We didn't all get into music for a job! We got into music to avoid a job, in truth - and get lots of girls.
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George: I'd like to think that the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids, and they're more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.

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Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Soft_Guitar60 on June 17, 2005, 09:52:44 PM
George: I'm always getting winked at these days. It used to be you, didn't it Paul?
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: on June 18, 2005, 11:08:16 AM
Q: "I'd like to direct this question to messrs. Lennon and McCartney. In a recent article, 'Time' magazine put down Pop music. And they referred to 'Day Tripper' as being about a prostitute..."

PAUL: (nodding jokingly) "Oh yeah."

Q: "...and 'Norwegian Wood' as being about a lesbian."

PAUL: (nodding) "Oh yeah."

Q: "I just wanted to know what your intent was when you wrote it, and what your feeling is about the 'Time' magazine criticizm of the music that is being written today."

PAUL: "We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all."
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Mendips on June 20, 2005, 02:17:20 AM
Sort of off topic but
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Harrison on June 20, 2005, 05:25:31 AM
Okay, in that picture, George looks like Sir Robin from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, John kind of looks like he did right before they split up, Paul, I don't know about Paul, and Ringo looks like my uncle.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: ma_tt2 on June 20, 2005, 06:39:55 AM
John Lennon- 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.

John Lennon-  Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Bobber on June 20, 2005, 10:54:48 AM
Q: "What influenced you fellas to let your hair grow so long?"

PAUL: "I think it was my dad, really. He said, 'You know, Paul, it's a bit square,' the haircut I had-- you know, short back and sides. He said, 'Why don't you get a Beatle Cut, son.'"




Q: "You save on haircutting, at least?"

PAUL: "Yeah, uhhh-- We're saving."

JOHN: "I think it costs more to keep it short than to keep it long, don't you?"
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Yamisonic on June 28, 2005, 01:32:35 AM
Great quotes. I loved the Beatles, women and children first, and laughed a lot with the "Thank you Ringo" thing. The "Dont wanna die at 40" is sad though.

My favourite quote is the first off my signature, Sounds so cool.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: An Apple Beatle on June 28, 2005, 04:09:57 AM
'To the Toppermost of the Poppermost!!!!!!'
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Soft_Guitar60 on June 28, 2005, 04:55:51 PM
Q: Who thought up the name Beatles?
Paul: I thought of it.
Q: Why?
Paul: Why not?
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Q: Why is that you Ringo get more fan mail than the others?
Ringo: I suppose it's because more people write me.
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Q: What is your favourite food?
John: George and I usually wait until someone else orders, then say "I'll have that too".
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Q: Do you fight amongst yourselves?
Paul: Only in the mornings.
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Q: Do you have any special message for the Dutch youth?
John: Tell them to buy Beatle records!
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Q: What careers would you individually have chosen, had you not become entertainers?
Paul: I don't know. Maybe something with art in it?
Ringo: A hairdresser
George: I had a short go at being an electrician's apprentice. But I kept blowing things up, so I got dumped.
John: No comment.
Q: What do you think of the pamphlet calling you four communists?
Paul: Us, communists? Why we can't be communists. We're the world's number one capitalists! Imagine us, communists!
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Q: Why don't you smile, George?
George: I'll hurt my lips.
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Q: What is the secret of your succes?
John: We have a press agent.
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Q: Hi, you're not married
George: No, I'm George
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Q: Is it true you can't sing?
John (pointing at George): Not me, him.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Yamisonic on June 28, 2005, 05:34:13 PM
Didnt John come up with Beatles in a dream? Where a spirit in flames, or something like that, said, "You shall be called Beatles with an E". I can't remember what said it, but it's on Anthology One.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: mysweetgeorge on May 12, 2009, 05:11:21 PM
Hi everyone,
well I am sure we all have our favorite quotes and sayings from the lads. One my favorites is from a Hard Day's Night where George says:  

"Put yer tongue away, it looks disgustin hangin out, all pink and naked"  

Classic! :)
does anyone have any other good ones out there?
 

Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Hello Goodbye on May 12, 2009, 07:15:50 PM
Another great thread, mysweetgeorge!

I have so many favorites, but I'll start with Ringo's "I'm going parading before it's too late!" in A Hard Day's Night.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Bobber on May 12, 2009, 08:13:06 PM
Quote from: 59
Another great thread, mysweetgeorge!

Erm, merged it with another similar thread.  :)

Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Bobber on May 12, 2009, 08:17:45 PM
Quote from: 197

(after pauls performance of yesterday, live)
john: thankyou ringo, that was wonderful

And before, George: "And now for Paul McCartney from Liverpool, opportunity knocks!"
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Bobber on May 12, 2009, 08:21:17 PM
John Lennon: "You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles were the biggest bastards on Earth."
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Hello Goodbye on May 13, 2009, 03:05:22 AM
Quote from: 63

Erm, merged it with another similar thread.  :)

Ahhhh.....the magic of merging!   ;)

Well then, I'm happy it's been resurrected.  Also from A Hard Day's Night is Ringo's "No, she'll only reject me in the end and I'll be frustrated."
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Octie on May 13, 2009, 04:32:19 AM
^awww!! I like that bit ;D

Yay, a quotes thread (grin) I'm a bit crazy about Beatles movie quotes, haha...

To continue the AHDN theme, I also like it when Ringo says
"yeah I know, that's why I play the drums, it's me active compensatory factor" :)

And for some reason I've always liked this quote from Help! (to the point that I have it on my facebook)
R: "The fire brigade once got my head out of some railings"
P: "Did you want them to?"
R: "No, I used to leave it there when I wasn't using it for school... you can see a lot of the world from railings"
(grin)(grin)(grin)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Hello Goodbye on May 13, 2009, 10:58:59 PM
^  :)

(http://www.moviemarket.co.uk/library/photos/186/186074.jpg)

"I wouldn't be seen dead in them. They're dead grotty."
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Mrs Lennon on May 14, 2009, 12:40:55 AM
Lady: Hello!
John: Hello.

Lady: Don't tell me you're--
John: No, I'm not.

Lady: You are.
John: I'm not.

Lady: I know you are.
John: I'm not, no.

Lady: You look just like him.
John: Do l?

John: You're the first one
that's said that, ever.
(and so on and so forth)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Kaleidoscope_Eyes on May 14, 2009, 05:17:07 AM
Quote from: 59
"I wouldn't be seen dead in them. They're dead grotty."
Grotty?   ;) I must make a note of that word and give it to Susan!  ;D
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Hello Goodbye on May 14, 2009, 11:00:11 PM
Quote from: 596
Grotty?   ;) I must make a note of that word and give it to Susan!  ;D
Oh, you mean that posh bird who gets everything wrong?

She's a drag. A well-known drag. We turn the sound down on her and say rude things.

;)

Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Octie on May 15, 2009, 11:29:30 AM
^ ... "have I said something amiss?" ;D

Haha, I quite like that grotty-shirt-person... "don't breathe on me, Adrian!!" ;D And then he calls George those funny names... "cheeky baby" and "sunny Jim" (or is it Sonny Jim?)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Hello Goodbye on May 15, 2009, 11:17:03 PM
(http://beatleshelp.50megs.com/summary/caps/07_pask.jpg)

"Doesn't the blood rush to your stomach?"
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Kaleidoscope_Eyes on May 16, 2009, 10:33:58 AM
... To continue with the Help! Questions

"Is it nasty that ring ,sir?"
"Ah! Kahili! Oh I must lie down (lies on a board of pins) ah that's better"
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: MandyBuglet on May 17, 2009, 04:12:53 AM
"Control yourself, you'll spurt!" - AHDN

First time I heard John say that, I laughed myself to tears.

Makes me laugh every time *grin*.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Hello Goodbye on May 19, 2009, 12:53:12 AM
Quote from: 596
... To continue with the Help! Questions.........


(http://beatleshelp.50megs.com/summary/caps/07_jcrlook.jpg)

(http://beatleshelp.50megs.com/summary/caps/07_glasses.jpg)

"Glasses?"



(http://beatleshelp.50megs.com/summary/caps/07_bhuta.jpg)

"That's right sir, they are glasses sir."


;)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: MandyBug on May 19, 2009, 04:45:37 AM
"How do you feel"?
"I used to use my hands."
"He used to use his hands" :P
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: emmi_luvs_beatles on June 17, 2009, 10:20:22 PM
I love the whole 'Grotty' thing with george in 'AHDN'. And when John said 'Bombing for peace is like F****ng for virginity. Another when Ringo said 'Love is a circle, iot keeps going round and round.' And my fav Help one is:

(Ringo) Besides I'm allergic to penicillin and all them other wonder drugs, gum? [george takes it]
(Paul) Are you sure it's not habit forming?
(George) Not as long as you don't swallow it.  ;D
 
and...

(john) Now see what you've done with your filthy eastren ways!
(girl) No! It is clang with his filthy eastren ways!
(john in accent) How do we know your not just as filthy and sent by him to knick the ring, when you've lulled us with your filthy eastren ways!
(paul) In what filthy ways are these?
lol love that one with johns accent!! ;D
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: georgeharrisonluver on July 15, 2009, 06:14:50 AM
"We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out."
John Lennon

Question: "Does your hair require any special attention?"
John Lennon: "Inattention is the main thing."

"I didn't like the look of Rory's drummer myself. He looked the nasty one, with his little grey streak of hair. But the nasty one turned out to be Ringo, the nicest of them all."
George Harrison

"I think people who can truly 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."" - George

"Someone from the office rang me up and said, 'Look, Paul, you're dead.' And I said, 'Oh, I don't agree with that.'" -Paul

Press: Are you wearing wigs or real hair?
Ringo: Hey, where's the police?
Paul: Take her out!
George: Our hair's real. What about yours, lady?  ;D


Press: Is your wife expensive?
John: Quite, quite...
Paul: How much did she cost when you bought her?
John: Er, she was about fifty pounds in Nairobi.
George: But she was second hand, wasn't she?
Press: Was she second hand??
John: How dare you!

"It'll be nice to be part of history, some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids." -Ringo
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Octie on July 15, 2009, 07:27:02 AM
^nice quotes 8)
I especially like the fourth one, and the third... last one's quite cute too ;D
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: emmi_luvs_beatles on July 15, 2009, 01:06:07 PM
"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

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

-John Lennon

"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."

-George Harrison

"Those of you in the cheaper seats, clap your hands. And the rest of you
just rattle your jewelry."

-John

"I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen."

-Timothy Leary

"I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs."

- Ringo Starr, 1967

I found them all at -> http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/fabfour/quotes.html (http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/fabfour/quotes.html)  ;D
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: MandyBug on July 16, 2009, 03:11:26 AM
My favorite John quote is:

"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted" :).
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on August 04, 2009, 02:05:09 AM


"I didn't like the look of Rory's drummer myself. He looked the nasty one, with his little grey streak of hair. But the nasty one turned out to be Ringo, the nicest of them all."
George Harrison

I Just Love this one! That is so sweet it made me smile. I love those two! They are adorable. :)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Wonderland on August 04, 2009, 06:41:10 PM
Sad quote

John ~ "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour, trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."

Oh gosh, I'm barely able to read that at the moment... That's too sad.

First of all, a sad quote.

"What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that." - John Lennon

;_;

But this one is really inspiring...

"You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like." - John Lennon

And this one's just sweet...

"One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world." - Paul McCartney

I love this one. It's lovely...

"John loved and prayed for the human race. Please tell people to pray the same for him. Remember that he had deep faith in love and that, though he has now joined the greater force, he is still with us." - Yoko Ono

And so is this...

"Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything." - Sean Lennon
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on August 04, 2009, 07:57:50 PM
A cool quote by George Martin about Ringo:

"he was the cement that held the beatles together"

ahhh! I love Ringo!
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Octie on August 05, 2009, 09:28:12 AM
^ Aww, that's a nice one, breedofrandy, I quite like it!! ^_^ (I quite like your signature and little sub-avatar message, by the way ;D )

My favorite John quote is:

"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted" :).
Hehe, I like that one :)

And Wonderland, your quotes were really beautiful and touching... nice :)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on August 05, 2009, 08:02:43 PM
^ Aww, that's a nice one, breedofrandy, I quite like it!! ^_^ (I quite like your signature and little sub-avatar message, by the way ;D )
Hehe, I like that one :)

And Wonderland, your quotes were really beautiful and touching... nice :)

Thank you Octie! I like your signature picture as well! It's so cute!

Ringo is the best! :)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on August 05, 2009, 10:35:58 PM
I found some more great quotes about Ringo from some people who knew him best.

--"He had a genial expansive manner when dealing with people -- an all-embracing good natured disposition to the world at large, but he wasn't one to see his confidences betrayed. There was a pluckiness about him, a no-nonsense way of dealing with things as they came along. Ringo was a small guy with a big heart." -- photographer Robert Freeman, author of The Beatles: A Private View(1990)

--"When Ringo lost his early inferiority complex within the Beatles, his natural humor emerged, usually in the form of witty one-liners, which even John Lennon found hard to follow. Unlike the others, he remained even-tempered and placid throughout the stormiest Beatlemania years. He avoided quarrels, demanded very little in terms of VIP attention, and there was never a trace of pretension or precariousness in his makeup." -- Tony Barrow in Bealtes Monthly(Feb. 1988)

--"He's so kind. He's polite and nice to everyone. ... Richie can be stuborn. You can't fabricate charm, and Richie has charm. He's so loving and giving and generous, always thinking about others." -- Barbara Bach, Ringo's wife (in an interview during the mid-1980s).

--'As always, Ringo remains the most human. Perhaps from the one from whom the least was expected the most has been given. -- Ray Hardy, writing a review of Ringo Starr: Straight Man or Joker in Good Day Sunshine(1993)

--"Both in public and, it appears, privately Ringo's unassuming good-natured personality provided a crucial balance between John's razor sharp wit, Paul's stagy coyness, and George's somber posturing." -- Ted Greenwald in The Beatles Companion(1992).

--"About the most remarkable thing Ringo has is this unique and very funny way of looking at the world. He is absolute master of the one-liner. ... Ringo's quirky vision comes out particularly in his use of language." -- George Martin, producer of the Beatles' albums and author of Summer of Love(1994)

--"Of all the Beatles, it was fitting that Ringo would be the one to remain amicable terms with the others in the aftermath of the group's breakup, when the polar friction between John and Paul was strongest. He was, after all, always the innocent, the quiet one, the bloke who was always just doing his job and the least inclined toward politics in the group." -- Martin Torgoff in The Compleat Beatles(1985).

--"Ringo was the home body, always less publicly visible than the others. To the world he was shy, soft, puerile, down-to-earth, funny, friendly, cute, lovable, vulnerable. Appropriately, the music his friends created for him, in addition to being perfectly tailored for his range and style embodied the above characteristics as well as reflected his tastes." -- Martin Torgoff in The Compleat Beatles(1985).

--"He remained placidly even tempered. By nature he was undemanding, kind and friendly ... Ringo was not a sad person. His face was molded into a deceptively unhappy expression. Until he made the muscles move into a deliberate smile." -- Tony Barrow in P.S. We Love You(1982).

--"I think he was very important to the Beatles. I began by thinking he was just a passenger, but there was something about him that kept them on the rails. He did have a tremendous wisdom and stability of character which quite often was very important. . . . John said that in an argument all he had to do was really get Ringo on his side and that it would be all right." -- Philip Norman in Beatlefan magazine(1981).

--"Ringo Starr was the humblest, most down-to-earth of the Beatles. Like the lovable runt of a litter, he seemed to stir a mother's instinct in female fans. ...Ringo changed the least, always the group's anchor, he remained the simplest and straight-forward of the four. -- Nicholas Scaffner, author of The Boys From Liverpool(1980).

--"The songs that were subsequently written for him always seemed to emphasize the affection which the others felt for him. With a Little Help From My Friends may have been composed with deliberate irony, but anyway it was the quintessential Ringo song. John and Paul had got Ringo down to a tee. He had such a winning affable personality and so many friends that his own failings were irrelevant since he never needed to do anything on his own." -- Jeremy Pascall, author of The Beatles Story(1974)

--"He's completely open and friendly, the sweetest of them all really. . He's not self-centered in any way. . . ...Ringo is a much stronger personality than he has appeared." -- Hunter Davies, author of The Beatles(1968)

--"He never takes credit for things. I think he often underestimates himself. He does forget what good ideas he has had, because he thinks he's not creative. He says it's for the others to have the good ideas, but he's good at many things. He's a good painter. I think films will be very good for him, so I hope they come off. He's great at all things. He's a lovely dancer." -- Maureen Starkey, wife of Richard Starkey, quoted in The Beatles by Hunter Davies (1968).

--"Ringo. He's cute. It's the only way to describe him." -- Mary "Aunt Mimi" Smith, John Lennon's aunt, said in 1964.(quoted in The Beatles in New Zealand(1993))

--"He has become an excellent Beatle and a devoted friend. He is warm and dry witted, a good drummer and I like him enormously. He is a very uncomplicated, very nice young man." -- Brian Epstein in A Cellar Full of Noise(1964)

--"We were all supposed to be something different. Paul was the face, I was the smart one, George with all his mysticism, was the spirit, and Ringo was the heart. I certainly don't have any hard feelings about him, never had a reason to." -- John Lennon

--"Ringo will always be my friend. -- George Harrison, Rolling Stone magazine (Oct. 1987)

--"We asked Ringo to go and talk to him (Paul) because ... Ringo had not taken sides, or anything like that , and he had been straight about it, and we thought Ringo would be able to talk fairly to Paul. I mean if Ringo agreed that it was unfair, then it was unfair." -- John Lennon in Lennon Remembers.

--"Ringo was simply the best drummer in Liverpool. Ringo also had native wit. He didn't know when he was being funny. Ringo Talked in titles. We had to follow him around with a notebook and pencil. You never know what he would say next." -- Paul McCartney, Off The Record (1988)

--"Ringo listened very carefully to what was happening on any song in progress. ... He was critical, in the same way that I could be critical of what the others were doing and not afraid to voice that criticism. He would suddenly say to John, "John, that's crap," whereupon John would look up over his glasses and murmur, "Oh really," and change it. Either that, or he'd make a rude remark back and then change whatever it was the Ringo had picked up on. Paul also took a great deal of notice of what Ringo said. He was a very effective guide, musically speaking; he had a good ear. Although he might not have always had that much to do, you could never forget that he was a major part of the group." -- George Martin, Summer of Love (1994)

--"The tradition that Ringo always had a song to sing on an album was nothing to do with the others being kind to him. ... Ringo occupied a special place in the hearts of many Beatles fans. The most common adjectives you heard about him were "cute and cuddly." Having him sing something on every album was extremely good marketing -- simple as that." -- George Martin, Summer of Love (1994)

--"It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for the great camera artists of the world, a target for the jaded, lately hostile eyes of people who had hardly known that popular music existed." -- Brian Epstein, Cellar Full of Noise.

--"Playing without Ringo is like driving a car on three wheels." -- George Harrison (1964).

I got a little carried away...but they're really all great and so is Ringo! :D


Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Wonderland on August 06, 2009, 09:21:31 AM
Those quotes are all so sweet. Just like Ringo himself. He and John told the best jokes, didn't they? xD

One of my friends, who usually doesn't care for anybody who isn't 'current', loves Ringo Starr, which is pretty cool. =D
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Octie on August 06, 2009, 02:18:51 PM
Wow, what a awesome bunch of quotes, breedofrandy! 8)

--"Ringo was not a sad person. His face was molded into a deceptively unhappy expression. Until he made the muscles move into a deliberate smile." -- Tony Barrow in P.S. We Love You(1982(in an interview during the mid-1980s).
That made me think of another quote I read in another Tony Barrow book (John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me), where Ringo is quoted as saying "my face may not look too chuffed, but the rest of me is!" :D

By the way, do you know a website called Ringo Starr Homepage? I quite like it, there's a whole lot of lovely Ringo-quotes there :)

Hehe, I definitely agree with Wonderland's comment on the subject of sweetness ;D
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on August 06, 2009, 10:03:32 PM
Wow, what a awesome bunch of quotes, breedofrandy! 8)
That made me think of another quote I read in another Tony Barrow book (John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me), where Ringo is quoted as saying "my face may not look too chuffed, but the rest of me is!" :D

By the way, do you know a website called Ringo Starr Homepage? I quite like it, there's a whole lot of lovely Ringo-quotes there :)

Hehe, I definitely agree with Wonderland's comment on the subject of sweetness ;D

Yes I have been there. I think it's great, they do have a lot of great things on there!
That book sounds interesting, is it any good? From the look of the quote from it, it does sound good.

I agree with Wonderland too! He is so sweet!! ;)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: georgeharrisonluver on August 09, 2009, 07:31:17 PM
Great John quotes Wonderland! especially the second one...
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Wonderland on August 10, 2009, 11:17:22 AM
Great John quotes Wonderland! especially the second one...

Thanks. (:
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on August 12, 2009, 07:15:09 PM
I heard this quote that Ringo said during the 2007 Rolling stones interview:

"John incredible friend, and we spent a lot of time out of the studio together because we both lived in Waybridge we had these houses five minutes apart and we had kids, and we would do that life as well. I mean the thing with John is they have this like cynical "Mr. Cynical", but he was really a big hearted guy, you know he was very loving."

"George was my real friend, it was hard when he went, John's was such a shock I think that ya dealt with it later, where with George you dealt with it as it was going on, so it was a lot harder in it's way. You have to say life is life...it happens ya know."

"As friends, as musicians we had a lot of time together, we actually didn't have a lot of time in years in a band, eight years. But then we had a lifetime together, ya know we had a lifetime in those eight years and then we had this other lifetime when we split up."

"It was interesting for me, while making the Ringo records, and everybody played on them. We came down and everyone supported what I was into then and ya know I played on John's first record, Paul went to Scotland on his first one, but I've played with him since and we support each other. And he was on my early records and George the same. I played on "All Things Must Pass" and all of that. Which was funny because he called and said uh Ringo are you on "All Things Must Pass"? and I said I don't think so, I don't know. And then he called back like two weeks later cause he researched it, and he said ya, you were on 80% of the record! I said hey it was a long time ago!"

"That's another thing ya know, I've played on a lot of stuff and it's..a lot it's getting to be like the big Jello now ya know what I mean?, it's like it's all mixed up in one, was I? was it that track? I have to hear it. Oh ya that's my drums."

I really find the parts where he talks about John and George touching and sweet.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Wonderland on August 12, 2009, 08:10:35 PM
He's really lovely, isn't he? ^_^

He has a very kind, accepting, sweet manner about him.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on August 12, 2009, 11:00:18 PM
He's really lovely, isn't he? ^_^

He has a very kind, accepting, sweet manner about him.


I know, he always seems so nice. I think he would be an awesome friend to have. So kind and caring. :)

(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/breedofrandy/aharddaystrain.jpg)

(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/breedofrandy/helpringoandjohnbw1.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Wonderland on August 13, 2009, 02:02:46 PM
Yeah, imagine having a friend like Ringo.

Side note, John looks really cute in that second picture. So does Ringo, actually.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on August 13, 2009, 04:33:08 PM
Yeah, imagine having a friend like Ringo.

Side note, John looks really cute in that second picture. So does Ringo, actually.

Yah I thought John looked quite adorable in that picture. I found two like that, in this one John just looks so sweet!

And Ringo just always looks cute!  ;D
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Pilzkopf on September 21, 2009, 09:28:28 PM
I haven't seen this one posted by anyone, but it's my favourite quote by a mile.

The Beatles were invited to Oxford University for a charity event in 1963. One of the students there was Jeffrey Archer, who would eventually become a best selling novelist. He'd also be sent to jail for perjury, and more recently he's been found to have published someone else's short story as his own. Stole it, in other words. In the 80s and 90s he'd be the focus of any number of episodes involving fraud, dishonesty and BS on the grand scale. He would become, in fact, the man everyone should try to avoid. But in 1963 he was just busy being Mr Fixit, sticking his finger in every pie, and battening onto anyone who could give him a shove up the ladder. Predictably, he tried to capitalise on the Beatles' fame, and made sure he got into this photo (that's him on the right):-

(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu220/Tigerfoot06/_1447240_beatles300.jpg)

But Ringo was immune to his charm. During a visit to the toilets he met Sheridan Morley (later a theatre critic) and asked him who this Archer character was. Then he offered his own opinion:"He strikes me as the kind of bloke who'd bottle your p*ss and sell it".

He might easily have added, "Remember, you heard it from me first". Because many very educated people have tried to sum up Jeffrey Archer in the decades following, but no one captured his essence with such accuracy and wit as Ringo did back then.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Eliza on October 09, 2009, 11:12:22 PM
Not sure if this was posted I didn't read all of the post

The Queen:How long have you been together?
Paul and Ringo:We've been together for 40 years

John:Me! sir me! I wanna go! me! sir take me!

Reporter:So what are your plans now?
John:We haven't made any yet

Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: emmi_luvs_beatles on October 11, 2009, 03:35:28 PM
Not sure if this was posted I didn't read all of the post

The Queen:How long have you been together?
Paul and Ringo:We've been together for 40 years


I've always loved that one!  ;D
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Q: "A psychiatrist in Seattle is saying that you are a menace - You bring out the destructive instincts in teenagers, and you oughta be banned."

George: "Psychiatrists are menaces, too."

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Q: "Ringo Starr, it's been suggested that boys coming from the particular area that you've come from, if you'd hadn't found an interest in music, might have found it much more difficult to get out and make a go of life. Would you comment on this?"

Ringo: "I think it's true, you know. I mean, when I was sixteen I used to walk along the road with the rest of the lads, and we'd have all our trade coats on. You know, we'd had a few knocks with other rival gangs, sort of thing. But then I got the drums, and the bloke nextdoor played a guitar. and I got a job..."

John: (sings) "'Teddy Booooy!'"

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Q: "John, where did this title come from - 'Help'?"

John: "It came from out of Dick Lester's mouth, it came. Our director, friends."

Ringo: "I thought it came out of his shoe."


http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/interviews.html (http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/interviews.html)  <----- 74 Beatles interviews.


Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on October 11, 2009, 03:52:16 PM
^^Really cute stuff there Emmi!  ha2ha

I like the shoe bit!
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: sgt. peppie on October 14, 2009, 03:13:56 AM
"...there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls." -george harrison from autobiography 'I Me Mine' I thought this quote was pretty funny and should be a hint towards the emo bands that are popular these days, lmao :P
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Eliza on October 23, 2009, 12:04:54 AM
Ringo: And that was the first time I had smoked marijuana and I laughed and laughed, and laughed!                    ahhhhh i love that one
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: breedofrandy on October 23, 2009, 02:51:59 AM
Ringo: And that was the first time I had smoked marijuana and I laughed and laughed, and laughed!                    ahhhhh i love that one

and then I think he said "it was fabulous!"  ha2ha
Title: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Boakile09 on December 14, 2009, 07:09:26 AM
I got a few....

All About The Benjamins-"God dont like ugly and youse a ugly motherf***a"
Never Die Alone-"You King? Do I look like Prince, motherf***a"

And my all-time favorite

Forrest Gump-"Have you found God, Forrest? I didnt know I was supposed to be looking for him, Lieutenant Dan."
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: Bobber on December 14, 2009, 08:58:12 AM
I got a few....

All About The Benjamins-"God dont like ugly and youse a ugly motherf***a"
Never Die Alone-"You King? Do I look like Prince, motherf***a"

And my all-time favorite

Forrest Gump-"Have you found God, Forrest? I didnt know I was supposed to be looking for him, Lieutenant Dan."

Yes. But we're looking for quotes by The Beatles in here.
Title: Re: Favorite Quotes
Post by: blackbird_ on April 22, 2010, 08:42:47 PM
Have to love George for this one:
"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."