Musician Quotes

I don't like to cook. I can make a TV dinner taste like radio.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn't do this I sent the kids off with umbrellas for six weeks straight.

If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

The future of rock belongs to women.

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I believe time wounds all heels.

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.

In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!

It's true Fang and I fight, but we've never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.

My body's in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

I don't mind looking to the camera -​ it's people that throw me.

Happiness is a warm gun.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind

Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

Life I love you, all is groovy.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

My sister-in-law is so skinny that she has a striped dress with only one stripe.

My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.

Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

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

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.