#beatles quote

[rockytheraccoon]

“At Woolton village fete, I met him. I was a fat schoolboy and, as he leaned an arm on my shoulder, I realised that he was drunk. We were twelve then, but, in spite of his sideboards, we went on to become teenage pals.”

- Paul McCartney on meeting John Lennon.

[sinksurance]

Maybe we should call a road service

Can’t, no road

And we’re not sub-scribers

Subscribers ough..

[queerlennon]

Because Paul was left handed, John initially found it unexpectedly difficult to follow his chord changes. He finally resorted to restringing his guitar and playing the instrument upside down until he had mastered the chords Paul could teach him — whereupon he proceeded to learn them all over again the other way around.

Pete Shotton - John Lennon: In My Life.

[mysticmeadows]

Hi Alessia!!! I just came across your account and I love it!!! If it’s alright I was hoping for a marauders wallpaper but only with Sirius, Remus and James? I have no particular quote in mind but if you find one you like then go ahead and use it!!! Thank you so much for doing this for me and so many others💙💙💙

Hello lovely! Thank you so much for this request! I was so excited to do this as I absolutely ADORE the marauders!!!! I decided to do both a phone wallpaper and a laptop wallpaper as you didn’t specify so I wanted to make sure there were options!! I also added my favourite Beatles quote that relates to these boys - they all got by with a little help from each other 🥰

Lots of love ~ Alessia. 💙

[long-after-love]

But what had really got [Paul] upset that day was an interview with Yoko, in which Yoko was quoted as saying that Paul had hurt John more than any other person. Paul thought they were some of the cruellest words he had ever read.

'No one ever goes on about the times John hurt me,' said Paul. 'When he called my music Muzak. People keep on saying I hurt him, but where's the examples, when did I do it? No one ever says. It's just always the same, blaming me. Could I have hurt John more than anyone in the world? More than the person who ran down Julia in his car?'

'We were always in competition. I wrote "Penny Lane", so he wrote "Strawberry Fields". That was how it was. But that was in compositions. I can't understand why Yoko is saying this. The last time I spoke to her she was great. She told me she and John had just been playing one of my albums and had cried.'

So why don't you ring her up, I suggested, and find out if she really made that remark?

'I'm not ringing her up on that. It's too trivial. It's not the time. I wouldn't just ring up on that.'

- Hunter Davies, The Beatles: the Authorised Biography (1985)

[paulmctarteney]

“I don’t know how long it had been since he’d heard that song [Within You Without You] - probably a long time,” he says. “Paul closed his eyes, listened and said, ‘Hey, George was really good!’”

- Giles Martin (son of George Martin) on the rerelease of Sgt. Pepper, and playing Paul various outtakes, Rolling Stone, June ‘17

[songysong]

Blackbird - The Beatles

[queerlennon]

Lennon told Ono in front party “I don’t want to be John and Yoko anymore.” Later that evening he had sex with [Carol] Realini in the basement. “He told me before he and Yoko married, they made a pact and were totally monogamous for all the time until that moment. It’s true, she told me. And he told me he wanted to break the pact. He wanted her to know that he was through with her and he had been trying to tell her this for sometime and he couldn’t get through to her. He felt the one way he could get through to her would be to break the pact in a way she would know he broke the pact.

— Andrew Grant Jackson (1973: Rock At A Crossroads)