The Beatles Speak
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John, Paul, George & Ringo in their own words with illuminating quotes by those who loved and worked with them
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‘People have told me that the album's title indicates I like to struggle with things in my life. But I've never seen my life that way. The record's full of songs and words. That's all.
At least, that's all I was trying to do. I don't any feel different now than I ever have 1/2… #johnlennon #Beatles
At least, that's all I was trying to do. I don't any feel different now than I ever have 1/2… #johnlennon #Beatles
August 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
‘People have told me that the album's title indicates I like to struggle with things in my life. But I've never seen my life that way. The record's full of songs and words. That's all.
At least, that's all I was trying to do. I don't any feel different now than I ever have 1/2… #johnlennon #Beatles
At least, that's all I was trying to do. I don't any feel different now than I ever have 1/2… #johnlennon #Beatles
“Mind Games was actually a book that somebody sent me, which I wrote an intro to: 'I have read three important and revolutionary books in the last three years: Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, Arthur Janov's Primal Scream, and now Mind Games” - John
#johnlennon #mindgames
#johnlennon #mindgames
August 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“Mind Games was actually a book that somebody sent me, which I wrote an intro to: 'I have read three important and revolutionary books in the last three years: Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, Arthur Janov's Primal Scream, and now Mind Games” - John
#johnlennon #mindgames
#johnlennon #mindgames
“The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.” George Harrison
#georgeharrison #thebeatles
#georgeharrison #thebeatles
August 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.” George Harrison
#georgeharrison #thebeatles
#georgeharrison #thebeatles
"I'm very good at forgetting who I am, because as far as I'm concerned Paul McCartney is a name given at birth and at the beginning of The Beatles he split off into a celebrity and I remained as me."
May 1997
#paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
May 1997
#paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
June 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"I'm very good at forgetting who I am, because as far as I'm concerned Paul McCartney is a name given at birth and at the beginning of The Beatles he split off into a celebrity and I remained as me."
May 1997
#paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
May 1997
#paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.”
#paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
#paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
June 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.”
#paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
#paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
“One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.”
#paulmccarntey #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
#paulmccarntey #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
June 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.”
#paulmccarntey #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
#paulmccarntey #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
I'm about halfway through McCartney Legacy Volume 2 - having just read about Jeff Cummin's artwork on Wings Over America so I was delighted to see this on the interweb this morning
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@mccartneylegacy.bsky.social #paulmccartney #WingsOverAmerica
June 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I'm about halfway through McCartney Legacy Volume 2 - having just read about Jeff Cummin's artwork on Wings Over America so I was delighted to see this on the interweb this morning
@mccartneylegacy.bsky.social #paulmccartney #WingsOverAmerica
@mccartneylegacy.bsky.social #paulmccartney #WingsOverAmerica
Celebrating Paul McCartney’s 83rd birthday with quotes throughout the day
“I don’t work at being ordinary”
#paulmccartney #macca #happybirthdaypaul #thebeatles
“I don’t work at being ordinary”
#paulmccartney #macca #happybirthdaypaul #thebeatles
June 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Celebrating Paul McCartney’s 83rd birthday with quotes throughout the day
“I don’t work at being ordinary”
#paulmccartney #macca #happybirthdaypaul #thebeatles
“I don’t work at being ordinary”
#paulmccartney #macca #happybirthdaypaul #thebeatles
June 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"Most people have come to know the time that John Lennon & I spent together as The Lost Weekend. I am always surprised by how many people are under the impression that our time together lasted only a single weekend" - May Pang
#johnlennon #maypang
#johnlennon #maypang
June 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"Most people have come to know the time that John Lennon & I spent together as The Lost Weekend. I am always surprised by how many people are under the impression that our time together lasted only a single weekend" - May Pang
#johnlennon #maypang
#johnlennon #maypang
April 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Artwork by Paul McCartney
April 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Artwork by Paul McCartney
‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.’
Ringo Starr
Anthology 1995
#ringostarr
#thebeatles
#beatles
Ringo Starr
Anthology 1995
#ringostarr
#thebeatles
#beatles
April 21, 2025 at 6:16 AM
‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.’
Ringo Starr
Anthology 1995
#ringostarr
#thebeatles
#beatles
Ringo Starr
Anthology 1995
#ringostarr
#thebeatles
#beatles
He breaks all the rules. He invents such unusual chord changes that [the] first time you hear them you think, ‘Did he really mean that?’ His writing is so simple yet so meaningful, it’s good, logical music 1/2 …..
Tony Dorsey, Trombonist and Arranger
Venus and Mars
#paulmccartney
Tony Dorsey, Trombonist and Arranger
Venus and Mars
#paulmccartney
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
He breaks all the rules. He invents such unusual chord changes that [the] first time you hear them you think, ‘Did he really mean that?’ His writing is so simple yet so meaningful, it’s good, logical music 1/2 …..
Tony Dorsey, Trombonist and Arranger
Venus and Mars
#paulmccartney
Tony Dorsey, Trombonist and Arranger
Venus and Mars
#paulmccartney
“They'd come on stage, and over the last couple of minutes, just before the curtains opened and they met the public, well, there'd be five of us, just the five of us on stage. And that was like a sacred moment for me.
And that made it all worthwhile”
Mal Evans
#thebeatles
#beatles
#malevans
And that made it all worthwhile”
Mal Evans
#thebeatles
#beatles
#malevans
April 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
“They'd come on stage, and over the last couple of minutes, just before the curtains opened and they met the public, well, there'd be five of us, just the five of us on stage. And that was like a sacred moment for me.
And that made it all worthwhile”
Mal Evans
#thebeatles
#beatles
#malevans
And that made it all worthwhile”
Mal Evans
#thebeatles
#beatles
#malevans
“Most people have come to know the time that John Lennon & I spent together as The Lost Weekend. I am always surprised by how many people are under the impression that our time together lasted only a single weekend” May Pang
(For those who don’t know it lasted 18 mths & beyond)
#maypang
#johnlennon
(For those who don’t know it lasted 18 mths & beyond)
#maypang
#johnlennon
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 AM
“Most people have come to know the time that John Lennon & I spent together as The Lost Weekend. I am always surprised by how many people are under the impression that our time together lasted only a single weekend” May Pang
(For those who don’t know it lasted 18 mths & beyond)
#maypang
#johnlennon
(For those who don’t know it lasted 18 mths & beyond)
#maypang
#johnlennon
“Once I heard it and got into it, that was life. I thought of nothing else but rock ‘n’ roll” - John Lennon
#johnlennon #thebeatles
#johnlennon #thebeatles
April 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“Once I heard it and got into it, that was life. I thought of nothing else but rock ‘n’ roll” - John Lennon
#johnlennon #thebeatles
#johnlennon #thebeatles
The first record, 'Love Me Do,' for me...that was more important than anything else. That first piece of plastic. You can't believe how great that was. It was so wonderful. We were on a record! That's great excitement to me."
#RingoStarr
#thebeatles
#beatles
#RingoStarr
#thebeatles
#beatles
April 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The first record, 'Love Me Do,' for me...that was more important than anything else. That first piece of plastic. You can't believe how great that was. It was so wonderful. We were on a record! That's great excitement to me."
#RingoStarr
#thebeatles
#beatles
#RingoStarr
#thebeatles
#beatles
John and Paul in the 70s
John floating the idea of a joint concert between Wings, Rolling Stones & Plastic Ono Band
Fascinating scratched out note too.
#paulmcartney #JohnLennon #RollingStones #plasticonoband
John floating the idea of a joint concert between Wings, Rolling Stones & Plastic Ono Band
Fascinating scratched out note too.
#paulmcartney #JohnLennon #RollingStones #plasticonoband
April 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
John and Paul in the 70s
John floating the idea of a joint concert between Wings, Rolling Stones & Plastic Ono Band
Fascinating scratched out note too.
#paulmcartney #JohnLennon #RollingStones #plasticonoband
John floating the idea of a joint concert between Wings, Rolling Stones & Plastic Ono Band
Fascinating scratched out note too.
#paulmcartney #JohnLennon #RollingStones #plasticonoband
"We’d been in Jamaica before we went to New Orleans and for the first time ever I’d got all the songs together I wrote it all out and stuck it all together like a scroll that went from here to the end of the room.So I had all that together and we just turned up and started recording”
#paulmccartney
#paulmccartney
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"We’d been in Jamaica before we went to New Orleans and for the first time ever I’d got all the songs together I wrote it all out and stuck it all together like a scroll that went from here to the end of the room.So I had all that together and we just turned up and started recording”
#paulmccartney
#paulmccartney
I can’t stop listening to the half-speed master of Venus and Mars. I’m hearing things that I didn’t know where there. Falling in love with this album all over again
#paulmccartney
#thebeatles
#paulmccartney
#thebeatles
April 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I can’t stop listening to the half-speed master of Venus and Mars. I’m hearing things that I didn’t know where there. Falling in love with this album all over again
#paulmccartney
#thebeatles
#paulmccartney
#thebeatles
People forget that while The Beatles disbanded, Apple never did.
Text from the excellent McCartney Legacy Volume 2
#thebeatles
#beatles
@mccartneylegacy.bsky.social
Text from the excellent McCartney Legacy Volume 2
#thebeatles
#beatles
@mccartneylegacy.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
People forget that while The Beatles disbanded, Apple never did.
Text from the excellent McCartney Legacy Volume 2
#thebeatles
#beatles
@mccartneylegacy.bsky.social
Text from the excellent McCartney Legacy Volume 2
#thebeatles
#beatles
@mccartneylegacy.bsky.social
‘I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that’ - Paul at The Queen Golden Jubilee Concert 2002 #paulmccartney #thebeatles #beatlequotes
#beatles
#beatles
March 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
‘I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that’ - Paul at The Queen Golden Jubilee Concert 2002 #paulmccartney #thebeatles #beatlequotes
#beatles
#beatles
“It blows me away that every generation listens to The Beatles, they have a listen. And it blows me away that the beat's going on. That's what it's about. The beat goes on and only the four of us were in there who know what it was like”
- Ringo
#ringostarr
#thebestles
#beatles
- Ringo
#ringostarr
#thebestles
#beatles
March 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“It blows me away that every generation listens to The Beatles, they have a listen. And it blows me away that the beat's going on. That's what it's about. The beat goes on and only the four of us were in there who know what it was like”
- Ringo
#ringostarr
#thebestles
#beatles
- Ringo
#ringostarr
#thebestles
#beatles
“If I hadn’t been a Beatle, I just wouldn’t have thought of having the stuff published ’cause I would’ve been crawling around, broke, and just writing it and throwing it away. I might’ve been a Beat poet.”
John
Interview Cliff Michelmore BBC’s Tonight 18/06/65
#johnlennon
#thebeatles
#beatles
John
Interview Cliff Michelmore BBC’s Tonight 18/06/65
#johnlennon
#thebeatles
#beatles
March 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“If I hadn’t been a Beatle, I just wouldn’t have thought of having the stuff published ’cause I would’ve been crawling around, broke, and just writing it and throwing it away. I might’ve been a Beat poet.”
John
Interview Cliff Michelmore BBC’s Tonight 18/06/65
#johnlennon
#thebeatles
#beatles
John
Interview Cliff Michelmore BBC’s Tonight 18/06/65
#johnlennon
#thebeatles
#beatles