I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it. (Lennon)
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back. 
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
I'm the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles. I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared. 
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.
Realized We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. I don't work at being ordinary. I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual. there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
. I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life. you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing. 
I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course. I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death. 
, I Think It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
