![]() ![]() I don’t let it become ‘I am the awakened you are sheep that will be shown the way.’ That is the danger of saying anything, you know.” - Playboy, 1981 “All we are saying is, ‘This is what is happening to us.’ We are sending postcards. It just sort of happens” - The Dick Cavett Show, 1971, on his memories of breaking up with the Beatles “It’s like saying, you know, ‘Did you remember falling in love?’ Not quite. “I said to Paul ‘I’m leaving.’ “ - Rolling Stone, 1971, on quitting The Beatles If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)’s bowling.” - Rolling Stone, 1975 “I’ve got used to the fact – just about – that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. “Why should The Beatles give more? Didn’t they give everything on God’s earth for ten years? Didn’t they give themselves?” - Playboy, 1981 How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It’s too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine? - Rolling Stone, 1971 “There is not one thing that’s Beatle music. We’d go when we decided, not when some fickle public decided, because we were not a manufactured group. “They’ve been trying to knock us down since we began, especially the British press, always saying, ‘What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?’ That was the in-crowd joke with us. That’s not to say you can’t enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. ![]() “Carrying The Beatles’ or the Sixties’ dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we’ve been way apart, you’d find a lot of similarities. Even if we’re not influenced, we’re all going that way at a certain time. “You see, we’re influenced by whatever’s going. We were all right.” - Rolling Stone, 1971 When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. “We were really professional by the time we got to the States we had learned the whole game. ![]() “I said we were more popular than Jesus, which is a fact.” - Look, 1966 There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.” - Playboy, published in 1981 “Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. If we’re going out the door of the hotel, we say, ‘Right! Beatle John! Beatle George now! Come on, let’s go!’ We don’t put on a false front or anything.” - Look, 1966 “We’re not Beatles to each other, you know. Each one of these characters tell a satirical story of the vices that are inherent in our society in a way they are Jodorowsky’s way of telling us that to become enlightened and to evolve, we must first be aware of the problems that exist within us.In honor of what would have been Lennon’s 80th birthday, we’ve compiled 80 quotes and lyrics attributed to the late rock icon. What they represent is in fact the negative attributes that have traditionally been associated with each planet. It’s in this tower that he is introduced to seven people who each personify a particular planet in our constellation. Where his journey really starts to become interesting though is when he enters the tower of an alchemist. We follow him as he embarks on a series of surreal incidents which range from smoking marijuana with a handless dwarf to witnessing the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, acted out by a group of toads. He represents the tarot card of “The Fool” and he is the main character of the opening act. The movie begins with a figure resembling Jesus Christ (dubbed “the thief” in the screenplay), passed out drunk and surrounded by swarming flies. ![]()
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