"From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success." - John Lennon'I grew up in Hamburg, not Liverpool.' John Lennon"As she was a real music fan she was quite pissed off with everyone screaming. I think she enjoyed the experience but she genuinely wanted to hear the show. That wasn't the deal, though. Not then.".-Paul McCartney (About Linda)I became a drummer because it's the only thing I could do. But whenever I hear another drummer, I know I'm no good... I'm not good on the technical things, but I'm good with all the motions, swinging my head, like." - Ringo Starr"Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us - like Muhammad Ali, for instance. We were taken to meet him on that first trip. It was a big publicity thing. It was all part of being a Beatle, really; just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions. Muhammad Ali was quite cute."George Harrison (About Cassius Clay)"When we were touring, and when the adoration and hysteria were at a peak, if we'd been the shrewd operators we were often made out to be, we might have thought, that's nice! Ah. Click. Let's use this for own evil ends." - Paul McCartneyEverybody loves music. What you really want is for music to love you. And thats the way I saw it was with Keith...Youre not writing it, its writing you. Youre its flute or its trumpet; youre its strings. Thats real obvious around Keith. Hes like a frying pan made from one piece of metal. He can heat it up really high and it wont crack, it just changes color. Tom Waits"I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it." - John Lennon"Here Comes The Sun was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: 'Sign this' and 'Sign that'. Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. The relief of not having to go and see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars and wrote Here Comes The Sun.."George Harrison"A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of The Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart." - Paul McCartneyRingo on Paul We are close as we want to be, he says laughing, were the two remaining Beatles, although he likes to think hes the only one"We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time." - John LennonIf you want heavy metal, listen to John Lee Hooker, listen to that motherfucker play. Thats heavy metal. Thats armour! - Keith Richards"What I do is I look for the positive side. I'm the only guy who sat down with John and wrote all those songs. It's me. I've got to pinch myself, I can't believe it. I just feel blessed to have known him and to have experienced his presence so intimately." ~ Paul McCartney"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry." - John LennonLa banda ms grande del mundo es diferente cada noche. En algn barcito de mala muerte hay una banda tocando como si se fueran a llevar al mundo por delante. Y en ese momento ellos son la banda ms grande del planeta.- Keith RichardsMusic is everybodys possession. Its only publishers who think that people own it.- John LennonQu fcil es atribuirle todo a algo que no existe"The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is." - John Lennon"This was the first time I had seen The Beatles and they were in black leather and dripping with sweat. They were doing songs that I'd never heard before and I wondered where they had got them from. They did an absolutely fantastic version of Besame Mucho, one of the best things I've ever heard on stage."Joey Bower, The Four Jays"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear." - John LennonDeath makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven claws.-Jim Morrison"I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others they always say 'Yeah, it always sounds like such a thing' and when they point it out I see what they mean. But I did get a part credit as a composer on one - it was called What Goes On." - Ringo Starr"You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like." - John LennonI wont quit to become someones old lady.-Janis JoplinNada se olvida ms despacio que una ofensa; y nada ms rpido que un favor.- Martin Luther King Jr.Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.- Martin Luther King Jr."La injusticia, all donde se halle, es una amenaza para la Justicia en su conjunto." Martin Luther King.Kurt Cobain:

Sobre Nirvana y el ser considerada una banda Sub Pop antes de firmar con DGC Records para el lanzamiento de Nevermind. Publicado en Dirt (1990)Si alguien viene y me dice que somos su banda favorita del sello Sub Pop, pienso entonces en cules pueden ser tus cinco bandas preferidas. Y qu pasa con los grupos del resto del pas?, no s, me asusta un poco. Solo pienso si te gustamos por lo que somos o porque somos parte de Sub Pop

Sobre ser considerados una banda alternativa o underground. De Recalling Memories of Kurt Cobain (1991):Y qu es ser alternativo? Cul es la contra-cultura? Qu es algo cool? Quin sabe? A quin le importa? Si buscar ser cool es importante para ti entonces eres un idiota! Qu puedes decir de las personas que esperan a que les digan qu hacer y cmo hacerlo? Es como apata en accinsolo basta ver la mediocridad en la que vivimos y lo que nos hacemos unos a otros. Lo que puedo decir es que lo que dicen de nosotros est fuera de control, no podemos hacer nada y no es nuestra culpa. No soy ambicioso, no soy un vendedor, nosotros no somos una nueva moda. Nunca hicimos esto con la idea de ser cool o la banda del momento. Eso jams pas por nuestras cabezas.

Sobre las diferencias entre los lbumes Bleach y Nevermind. Publicado en la revista Kerrang! (va NirvanaClub.com, 1991):Creo que estbamos mucho ms enfocados en las dinmicas en este disco (Nevermind). Con Bleach todo fue ms directo, simple y se volvi un poco aburrido tocarlo, siempre lo mismo, as que decidimos tomar una pausa y cambiar el estilo de tocar, aso que combinbamos los elementos de lo suave y bello con lo pesado y agresivo.

Sobre MTV considerando a Nirvana como una banda de metal. Publicado en Guitar World (1992):Eso est bien, que se sigan engaando. No voy a pelear contra eso, pero es muy extrao el ver nuestras caras en MTV.Sobre el nacimiento de su hija Frances Bean Cobain. Publicado en Los ngeles Times (1992):No hay nada mejor que tener un hijo. Siempre me han gustado los nios, sola trabajar en los veranos en el YMCA y era el responsable de 30 chicos de pre-escolar. En esa poca saba que cuando tuviera un hijo lo iba a disfrutar mucho. No te puedo decir cunto ha cambiado mi actitud desde que lleg Frances. Abrazarla es la mejor droga en el mundo.

Sobre tener un perfil bajo. Publicado en Rolling Stone (1994):Nunca quise cantar, solo quera tocar la guitarra rtmica, esconderme en la parte trasera del escenario y tocar. Pero durante mis aos en la escuela secundaria, cuando tocaba guitarra en mi cuarto, al menos tena la intuicin que tena que escribir mis propias canciones.

Sobre el componer y escribir canciones. Publicado en Recalling Memories of Kurt Cobain (1991):No entiendo nada de los aspectos tcnicos de la msica. No entiendo y aun no entiendo como todos esos sonidos juntos funcionan bien. Lo nico que s es lo que suena bien para nosotros. Yo, o nosotros como banda, realmente nunca copiamos a nadie o pasamos tiempo aprendiendo canciones de otros artistas. No ramos tan buenos o con la suficiente paciencia para hacerlo. Nosotros somos de la escuela de aprender mientras vas tocando. Y sobre influenciasno quiero mencionar mis poetas favoritos, los poco que me gustan y los que deberan descubrir cada quien por su propia iniciativa. Adems, hay pocos poetas contemporneos que me interesan.Sobre el valor de la grabacin del lbum Nevermind. Publicado en Guitar World (1992):(Risas) No lo recuerdo. Tengo Alzheimer. Por favor no me pregunten cunto cost la grabacin de nuestros videos, eso me da vergenza. Definitivamente pudimos haber llamado a estudiantes de cine que hubieran hecho un gran trabajo.Sobre la renuncia a Nirvana. Publicado en Los ngeles Times (1992):Creo que he renunciado a la banda al menos unas 10 veces en el ltimo ao. As se lo he dicho a mi manager o a la banda. A veces le digo a Courtney que ha sido suficiente, pero esto se pasa en un da o dos. Usualmente la msica es lo que me hace reflexionar. Lo que ms me molesta son los rumores, los rumores sobre la herona, todas las especulaciones. Me siento completamente violado y nunca dimension que mi vida privad fuera un asunto tan importante.

Sobre preferir Drain You por encima de Smells Like Teen Spirit. Publicado en Rolling Stone (1994):Todo el mundo se ha concentrado demasiado en esa cancin [Smells Like Teen Spirit]. La razn por la cual ha tenido una gran acogida es porque la han visto en MTV un milln de veces. Ha sido martillada en sus cabezas. Pero creo que hay otras buenas canciones que he escrito que son tan buenas o si no mejores que esa. Est Drain You. Es una cancin tan buena como Teen Spirit. Me encanta la letra y nunca me canso de tocarla. Si fuera tan grande como Teen Spirit me seguira gustando igual. Pero a veces no puedo disfrutar Teen Spirit. Hay veces que, literalmente, quiero tirar la guitarra y dejar el escenario. No puedo pretender que disfruto tocarla.

"...To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else." Janis Joplin"We always got screams up in Scotland, right from the beginning. I suppose they haven't got much else to do up there." - John Lennon"Keith played the skins with the kind of wild abandon that most trained musicians before him, not knowing any better, would have described as lunatic, in the worst sense of the word, and he lived his life with just about that same degree of intensity" ~ Bruce Eder"I picture John physically as someone youthful who made a lot, but I feel him more as an energy, more metaphysically." - George Harrison"Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl." - Janis JoplinIf you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorousI think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything. - Janis Joplin"There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually - we drank." - Ringo Starr, 1966They werent opposites, they were so alike. The sad thing is John isnt with us anymore and who knows what would have happened. You know, its the press. You read about history and you know its not really what happened thats why Im glad I got pictures of them smiling together and I got to show people that, you know, they loved each other they were friends, and it was deeper than any of us will ever know. - Linda McCartney speaking about John and Paul's friendshipThats what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be. Janis"Sometimes, you know, youre with someoneand youre convincedthat theyve got something toto tell you. Or, you knowyou want to be with them. Janis"John had his thing, and Paul had his, and together there were two different things all together. But they fit." - Billy Preston"As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead." - George Harrison"Cats have nine lives but we've gone through twenty".-Ronnie Wood"Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow" - John Lennon"No quiero madurar. Hay una mejor manera de hacerlo sin torturar tu cuerpo. He decidido que quiero vivir".- John Lennon"When I was about 12, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius...I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care." - John Lennon'Hey man, there's no rush. It's only time, and you'll feel it when the time is right.' - Ray Manzarek

In the 46 years that the album has been out, have you ever wonder who all was on the cover of the Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover?

Here's a list, match the number to the name. 1 Sri Yukteswar Giri (guru) 2 Aleister Crowley (dabbler in sex, drugs and magic) 3 Mae West (actress) 4 Lenny Bruce (comic)5 Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer) 6 W. C. (William Claude) Fields (comic) 7 Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist) 8 Edgar Allen Poe (writer) 9 Fred Astaire (actor) 10 Richard Merkin (artist)11 The Varga Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas) 12 Leo Gorcey (actor) *13 Huntz Hall (actor, with Leo Gorcey, one of the Bowery Boys) 14 Simon Rodia (creator of Watts Towers) 15 Bob Dylan (musician) 16 Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator) 17 Sir Robert Peel 18 Aldus Huxley (writer) 19 Dylan Thomas (poet) 20 Terry Southern (writer) 21 Randy Nauert (surfer/musician) 22 Tony Curtis (actor) 23 Wallace Berman (actor)24 Tommy Handley (comic) 25 Marilyn Monroe (actress) 26 William Burroughs (writer) 27 Sri Mahavatara Babaji (guru) 28 Stan Laurel (comic) 29 Richard Lindner (artist) 30 Oliver Hardy (comic) 31 Karl Marx (philosopher/socialist) 32 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (writer) 33 Sri Paramahansa Yagananda (guru) 34 Anonymous (was hairdressers dummy) 35 Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle) 36 Anonymous (was hairdressers dummy 37 Max Miller (comic) 38 The Petty Girl (by artist George Petty) 39 Marlon Brando (actor) 40 Tom Mix (actor) 41 Oscar Wilde (writer) 42 Tyrone Power (actor) 43 Larry Bell (artist) 44 Dr. David Livingston (missionary/explorer) 45 Johnny Weismuller (swimmer/actor) 46 Stephen Crane (writer) 47 Issy Bonn (comic) 48 George Bernard Shaw (writer)49 H. C. (Horace Clifford) Westermann (sculptor) 50 Albert Stubbins (soccer player 51 Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru) 52 Lewis Carroll (writer) 53 T. E. (Thomas Edward) Lawrence (soldier, a/k/a/ Lawrence of Arabia) 54 Sonny Liston (boxer) 55 The Petty Girl (by artist George Petty)56 Wax model of George Harrison 57 Wax model of John Lennon 58 Shirley Temple (child actress) 59 Wax model of Ringo Starr 60 Wax model of Paul McCartney 61 Albert Einstein (physicist) 62 John Lennon, holding a French horn 63 Ringo Starr, holding a trumpet 64 Paul McCartney, holding a cor anglais 65 George Harrison, holding a flute 66 Bobby Breen (singer)67 Marlene Dietrich (actress) 68 Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (Indian leader) # 69 Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffalos 70 Diana Dors (actress) 71 Shirley Temple (child actress) 72 Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth 73 Cloth figure of Shirley Temple (child actress) by Jann Haworth 74 Mexican candlestick 75 Television set 76 Stone figure of girl 77 Stone figure 78 Statue from John Lennons house 79 Trophy 80 Four-armed Indian doll 81 Drum-skin, designed by Joe Ephgrave 82 Hookah (water tobacco-pipe) 83 Velvet snake 84 Japanese stone figure 85 Stone figure of Snow White 86 Garden gnome 87 Tuba 88 Elvis (rock star reincarnated) * Painted out because he requested a fee # Painted out at the request of EMI"I think the French girls are fabulous." - Paul McCartney, 1964"You dont make music for immortality, you make music for the moment. For capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth. Wow, is this fun. Ray Manzarek"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." - John LennonYou have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, youve gotta believe. Youve gotta believe in the goodness. Ray ManzarekBill Wyman on Brian Jones: "He formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we play..."It was magical. I mean, there were really some loving, caring moments between four people. A really amazing closeness, with four guys who really loved each other - it was pretty sensational." - Ringo Starr"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality." - John Lennon

Freddie Mercury Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.I don't want to change the world with our music. There are no hidden messages in our songs. I like to write songs for modern consumption.I'm so powerful on stage I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert yet inside I'm a completely different man.I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.Success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it has prevented me from having the one thing we all need, a loving, on-going relationship. Love is Russian roulette for me.People are apprehensive when they meet me. They think I'm going to eat them. When we first got our band together I think most people were really shocked because they thought pop groups usually consisted of ex-truck drivers with very little brains, who were fed up with being on the dole and had decided to become top of the pops insteadI've worked hard for money. Nobody's given it to me dear! I've earned it so it's mine to do what I want with. So if I want a pyramid in Kensington and I can afford it, I'll have it.If I didn't do this I wouldn't have anything to do. I can't cook. I'm not any good at being a housewife.If I lost everything tomorrow I'd claw my way back to the top somehow.I like to ridicule myself. I don't take it too seriously. I wouldn't wear these clothes if I was serious. The one thing that keeps me going is that I like to laugh at myself.I don't have any aspirations to live to 70. I don't want to sound morbid. I've lived a full life and if I'm dead tomorrow, I don't give a damn. I've done it all I really have.We are the Cecil B De Mille of rock n roll - always wanting to do things biggerand better.We're seeking perfection, even if we know it's virtually impossible to find. When we were looking for a good bass player, we took ages making up our minds because we wanted the best. We are meticulous. It drives some promoters and backstage staff guys mad, but we want everything to be as good as it can for our audiences.I'm a human being. I'd like people to recognise the fact I'm a human being.When I look back on all the black nail varnish and stuff I think, God, what did I do? I used to feel a need for all that on stage. It made me more secure. But now I don't. I've grown up a bit.Staying successful at our level is hard. But when you've tasted success asbeautifully as I have you don't want to let go in a hurry.I suppose the way we tackled our career sounds clinical and calculating. But ouregos couldn't handle anything but the best.Mi alma est pintada con las colores de las alas de una mariposa

Yo soy una prostituta musical

Yo no fui hecho para ir al cielo. No quiero ir al cielo. El infierno es mucho mejor. Solo hay que pensar en la gran cantidad de gente interesante que vas a conocer all abajo

Soy un gran romntico, pero siempre pongo una barrera sobre mi vida personal, as que es muy difcil que la gente conozca el verdadero Freddie

Yo siempre supe que sera una estrella, ahora parece que todo el mundo empieza a estar de acuerdo conmigo

Yo no ser una estrella de rock, ser una leyenda

Soy muy emocional y creo que me enloquecer con el paso del tiempo

Qu estar haciendo en 20 aos? Estar muerto, eso es seguro

Yo me visto de forma increble y colorida, pero con gusto

Cul es la razn por la cual hemos tenido xito? Por mi carisma, por supuesto

Siempre tuvimos excesos en todos los lbumes de Queen, pero eso es Queen

Creo que mis melodas superan a mis letras

Me gusta rodearme de lo mejor

Siempre quise vivir en la poca victoriana, una poca llena de exquisitez y glamur

Cuando me haya muerto quiero ser recordado como msico, con mucho valor y sustancia"The thing is, we're all really the same person. We're just four parts of the one." - Paul McCartneyHe descubierto que yo grito de la misma forma que grita una persona que est a punto de ser devorada por un tiburn o que ha pisado un alga marina

La verdad no me s mi nmero telefnico

Personalmente me gustan nuestras canciones. Si todo se acabara maana me queda la tranquilidad de que quedaron grabadas en algn lugar. No las escrib para los dems, las escrib para m

He aprendido a controlarme. Sola ser una persona que me enojaba por todo, si algo me sacaba de quicio simplemente destrozaba todo lo que tena a mi alrededor, golpeaba a alguien y me iba. El autocontrol es algo que he aprendido con los aos

La gente piensa que yo no s nada de religin. Me s tantas canciones y coros religiosos que muchos se sorprenderan

Aerosmith es una banda que pertenece a las memorias de mi infancia. Ellos eran los nicos artistas en mi ciudad a los que se les permita usar maquillaje y ropas estrafalarias, la gente en Indiana es muy conservadora

Cuando tocbamos en bares o clubes pequeo, como en el 88-89, si te caas del escenario no era tan grave. Luego pasamos a estadios y arenas y era ms complicado. Corra mucho y deba estar pendiente de no caerme del escenario porque los golpes iban a ser ms fuertes. Trataba de estar pendiente de la cinta fluorescente que sealaba el fin de la tarima y recuerdo que una vez en el L.A. Coliseum, cuando abrimos para los Rolling Stones, las luces se apagaron y yo simplemente ca porque no haba cinta.

Cuando viajamos y hacemos shows en Latinoamrica o Asia, entiendes que nuestra msica ha trascendido culturas, idiomas, gneros y creencias religiosas. La gente se identifica con nuestra msica y es el resultado de un amplio catalogo de canciones de Guns N Roses. Ver los rostros disfrutando los shows en lugares tan remotos es demasiado interesante

Soy un trabajador nocturno, me cuesta trabajar durante el da; por eso y otras razones, los conciertos tambin son tarde en la noche. Me gusta que la gente que trabaja con nosotros tenga el tiempo suficiente para descansar durante el da, las giras son extenuantes y tienen muchos detalles. S que la gente se queja de la hora que empezamos pero muchas veces los muchachos del equipo tcnico terminan de trabajar al medio da del da siguiente de un show. As que todos debemos estar en buena forma para entregarnos por dos o tres horas de concierto

En la secundaria era un verdadero atleta, tenia buena forma fsica y me interesaba participar en varios deportes

Soy una persona muy sensible y emocional y esto me hizo pensar que no poda interactuar con la gente. En algn punto fui a una clnica pensando que me podan ayudar. Conteste un cuestionario de 500 preguntas y as fue diagnosticado como maniaco depresivo. La respuesta quizs fueron las medicinas y la verdad es que la presin se debe manejar de otras formas

La gente ha creado un verdadero mito sobre lo que ha pasado y lo que pas con Guns N Roses. Hay muchas ideas distorsionadas, por esto simplemente decid alejarme de la prensa y no dar la oportunidad a que se mal interpretara lo que dijera. Todo se convirti en un asunto de manejadores, abogados y visitas a la corte. Yo he sido demandado en demasiadas ocasiones. He tenido que responder por cada una de esas demandas y por eso es que prefiero que los asuntos internos y legales sean manejados por abogados. Esa es la realidad"Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible." - John Lennon"Music is my soul; this is my path." - John Densmore"We were big enough to command an audience of that size, and it was for love. It was for love and bloody peace. It was a fabulous time. I even get excited now when I realise that's what it was for: peace and love, people putting flowers in guns."Ringo Starr"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap their hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery." - John Lennon"I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and JimThats where it happened. It was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity. Ray ManzarekThats the good thing about women, man. Because they sing their fuckin insides, man. Women, to be in the music business, give up more than youd ever know. Janis"I really thought that love would save us all." - John Lennon"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." - John Lennon"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon"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?" - John Lennon"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon. "Everything is clearer when you're in love." - John LennonSurrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. - John Lennon"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." - John LennonAs usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. - John LennonIf everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.-John Lennon"I used to say to my Auntie, 'You throw my poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bastard stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like the genius or whatever I was when I was a child" - John Lennon"There's just no point hating someone you love." John (NOWHERE BOY, tal vez cierto)"If I'd had a better education, I wouldn't have been me. I never fitted in. I was always a freak, I was never lovable. I was always Lennon!" - John LennonAnother year is over and a new one just begun." -John Lennon"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship," ... "I'm not interested in being a dead fucking hero" -John LennonLife is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John LennonWhos to say the dreams and the nightmares arent as real as the here and the now? - John LennonJohn Lennon taught the world that all you need is love. What the world may not realize is that he spent his entire childhood vying for it. - Paste MagazineIts the music. Thats it, its just music. Simple. Paul McCartney/Thomas Sangster"You may think you know John Lennon, but until you've seen Nowhere Boy, you'll have no idea what fueled the fire inside one of the world's greatest talents."- PopEaterIts just three chords. Thats rock and roll. Its simple. - John LennonWhy couldnt God make me Elvis? Ill get you back for that God.- John Lennon, Nowhere BoyIs nowhere full of geniuses, sir? Because then I probably do belong there. John LennonIm gonna start a rock and roll group. Be like Elvis. - John Lennon, Nowhere BoyWhats important is that Ive chosen you. And were gonna be great. - John Lennon, Nowhere Boy*John Lennon* once said I lost my mother twice. Once as a child of five and then again at seventeen.It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think "Wow how did I get here? John Lennon"It seems to me to be the road toward freedom...external revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. - Jim MorrisonFreedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.-Janis Joplin"It's great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles' White Album, shut up!" - Paul McCartney"One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world." - Paul McCartneyThe kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet. Jim Morrison"If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been a Beatles." - John Lennon"When [you] smoke... you sit down and then you can meditate and be someone. Rum teach you to be a drunkard, and herb teach you to be someone." "We were big enough to command an audience of that size, and it was for love. It was for love and bloody peace. It was a fabulous time. I even get excited now when I realise that's what it was for: peace and love, people putting flowers in guns.""We were big enough to command an audience of that size, and it was for love. It was for love and bloody peace. It was a fabulous time. I even get excited now when I realise that's what it was for: peace and love, people putting flowers in guns."Ringo Starr"We were big enough to command an audience of that size, and it was for love. It was for love and bloody peace. It was a fabulous time. I even get excited now when I realise that's what it was for: peace and love, people putting flowers in guns."Ringo Starr- Bob Marley"What is to be must be." Bob MarleyJim Morrison on the problems of monoculture in 1970: Young people are being programmed by their radiosthere is really no choice involved. Someone is programming it.Adolescence and early youththe fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demandsand rock is screaming type music. Jim Morrison on Rock"I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope." - John Lennon, 1980"People get I'n'I from the music, and I'n'I is the truth.".- Bob Marley InI=we-together"We had never seen The Beatles before and we saw these black leather trousers and black jackets and long hair. They got on stage and they blew me away. They were louder than anyone else, but they had the equipment."Dale Roberts, The Jaywalkers"The crowds outside were going mad. By the time John Lennon had got through the cordon of girls, his mohair jacket had lost a sleeve. I grabbed it to stop a girl getting away with a souvenir. John stitched it back on. They may have altered their style elsewhere, but they didn't do it at the Cavern. They were the same old Beatles, with John saying, "Okay, tatty-head, we're going to play a number for you.' There was never anything elaborate about his introductions."Paddy Delaney, Cavern Club doorman"Every need got an ego to feed."- Bob Marley, pimpers paradise"I'm Keith Moon. What's your excuse?".- Keith Moon"Everyone thinks I'm laughing at them, but I want them to laugh with me."- Keith Moon"One of the most terrifying things that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me." -Joe WalshI was a pretty normal person until I was fifteen or sixteen then I got weird.- Janis JoplinOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand different people, then I go home alone.- Janis Joplin"Our great comedian, the supreme melodramatistthe most spontaneous and unpredictable drummer in rock." - Pete Townshend"That 40 or 50 minutes I'm out there, that's when it happens for me." Janis JoplinThere are two kinds of people. There are lovers and killers. The killers will fuckin kill you. But, youve got to be willing to go up on that front line and fight those son-of-bitches. We have to be willing to put our asses on the line. We have to take over. Ray Manzarek"It all comes straight out of our heads, and it's not too far out to understand. If we play well on stage, I think most people understand that what we play isn't just a noise. Most audiences respond to a good act." Syd Barrett, Melody Maker, April 1967.I have one thing I can do, and Im getting better at it too, which makes me proud. It makes you feel like an artist rather than a fluke, man, which I think I was. I just happened to have the right combination at the right time. Janis Joplin"I was always telling people I was a drummer before I got a set: a mental drummer.".-Keith Moon"A lot of the stuff we did in those days was just sitting around in the rehearsal room plunking around for ideas, searching for ideas, desperately trying to come out with little things and work on those." David Gilmour, Musician magazine, December 1982As an artist, youre going to say 'Holy shit! Is this fucked, man! Lets get to work here. Lets read our Joseph Campbell. Lets read our Carl Jung. Lets listen to Igor Stravinsky, Miles Davis and John Coltrane and The Doors. Lets see how The Doors put that stuff into their music.'...I think it is very fertile for creativity. Ray Manzarek"I think my illness, in one way, has helped everybody, because it's brought the reality of you really don't know how long this is going to last. It was easy to take things for granted before. I think everyone now appreciates what we've got and what we get to do." Tony"This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games Janis JoplinMy great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually Id like to write something of great importance. Thats my ambitionto write something worthwhile. Jim Morrison"I believe very positively in colour in drumming. You know, theres so many drummers that can go through the routine, but they dont add colour anywhere. They dont paint with the kit. Thats what I like doing. I like painting, adding colour and effects and shocking people."-Keith Moon"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself."- Bob MarleyI think the self interview is the essence of creativity. Asking yourself questions and trying to find answers. Jim Morrison "If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel." - Jim MorrisonTime is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet. Ray Manzarek"On my first visit in September we just ran through some tracks for George Martin. We even did Please Please Me. I remember that, because while we were recording it I was playing the bass drum with a maraca in one hand and a tambourine in the other. I think it's because of that that George Martin used Andy White, the 'professional', when we went down a week later to record Love Me Do. The guy was previously booked, anyway, because of Pete Best. George didn't want to take any more chances and I was caught in the middle.I was devastated that George Martin had his doubts about me. I came down ready to roll and heard, 'We've got a professional drummer.' He has apologised several times since, has old George, but it was devastating - I hated the bugger for years; I still don't let him off the hook!" - Ringo Starr. Anthology"On my first visit in September we just ran through some tracks for George Martin. We even did Please Please Me. I remember that, because while we were recording it I was playing the bass drum with a maraca in one hand and a tambourine in the other. I think it's because of that that George Martin used Andy White, the 'professional', when we went down a week later to record Love Me Do. The guy was previously booked, anyway, because of Pete Best. George didn't want to take any more chances and I was caught in the middle.I was devastated that George Martin had his doubts about me. I came down ready to roll and heard, 'We've got a professional drummer.' He has apologised several times since, has old George, but it was devastating - I hated the bugger for years; I still don't let him off the hook!" - Ringo Starr. Anthology "On my first visit in September we just ran through some tracks for George Martin. We even did Please Please Me. I remember that, because while we were recording it I was playing the bass drum with a maraca in one hand and a tambourine in the other. I think it's because of that that George Martin used Andy White, the 'professional', when we went down a week later to record Love Me Do. The guy was previously booked, anyway, because of Pete Best. George didn't want to take any more chances and I was caught in the middle. I was devastated that George Martin had his doubts about me. I came down ready to roll and heard, 'We've got a professional drummer.' He has apologised several times since, has old George, but it was devastating - I hated the bugger for years; I still don't let him off the hook!" - Ringo Starr. Anthology"I don't understand how come you're gone, man. I don't understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still crying too, man, and it can't get it together. Janis

We used to drive 200 miles in an old van down the M1, come into London, try and find the BBC and then set up and do the program. Then wed probably drive back to Newcastle for a gig in the evening! (George)John used to say "I love you" every day. I didn't understand then, how lucky I was.-Yoko Ono"It's wrong to take lessons from the start because it cramps your style." -Keith Moon"Rock 'n' Roll is a mad bloody world..." -Keith Moon "One of the myths about the Pink Floyd is that they have all this amazing electronic gadgetry when, in fact, we all use the same as any other group. Its our technique of using them in a different way" -Roger Waters, New Musical Express, June 1972."We'd like to introduce, as usual, Mr. Keith Moon! Conductor of our particular orchestra" -Pete TownshendI think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, "You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly-George HarrisonIt's all in the mind.-George Harrison"If you dont know where youre going, any road will take you there"- George HarrisonI remember thinking I just want more. This isnt it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you dont just stumble across. Youve got to search for it. -George HarrisonIts being here now thats important. Theres no past and theres no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we dont know if there is one. -George Harrison"With our love, we could save the world." -George HarrisonAll the world is birthday cake. So take a piece, but not too much. -George Harrison"I never was the person who broke up The Beatles and thats a fact and I can relax with that truth. I thought that they were very exciting, interesting musicians. Creative, right from the beginning. I felt that I learnt a lot from them rather than feeling bad about them. John always put me right in there with them and they were very diplomatic in certain ways. I think they understood what I was doing as musicians and, as you know, things like Dont Worry Kyoko was played by John and Ringo and Eric Clapton. They didnt do it because they just had to or anything, they just loved it. They all loved the experience. They were all really far out people really who also did something that was widely acceptable."-Yoko OnoThe fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied. -Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Strange Pilgrims"Keith Moon was a walking insane asylum." -Alice CooperThe grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness. Jim Morrison"I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?" -Janis Joplin No matter how shitty it is, get on with it-Paul McCartneyWe are simply a pop group. But because we use light and colour in our act, a lot of people seem to imagine that we are trying to put across some message with nasty, evil undertones.-Roger Waters, New Musical Express, July 1967."I'm the best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world!"-Keith MoonToday, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life...- Dalai Lama"Friends. The shadow hat icon will always be me personally writing to you from now on. No one else will use it." Neil young"...Guess who was in town last week - Paul McCartney!!! (He's a Beatle). And he came to see us!!! SIGH Honest to God! He came to the Matrix & saw us & told some people that he dug us. Isn't that exciting!!!! Gawd, I was so thrilled - I still am! Imagine - Paul!!!!-Janis JopliinNo puedes abandonar algo en lo que realmente crees por razones financieras. Si mueres en la miseria, que as sea. Pero al menos sabrs que lo has intentado. Diez minutos en la escena musical son el equivalente a cien aos fuera de ella". Robert Anthony PlantWe're much better in person. Our record album is only a map of our work. I'd like to play in a club where we could be with the people. Maybe we wouldn't even play. It would be great to sit down and talk with the audience, get rid of all the separate tables and have one big table. Jim Morrison"Im listening to what Petes doing, Im listening to what Johns doing. I dont have time to think about what Im doing. A drummer doesnt need to think about what hes doing. He just does it."-Keith MoonI wasnt planning any of this, I wasnt planning on sitting in cold dressing rooms all my life, I didnt even know it existed. Even when I was a singer I never wanted to be a star. I just liked to sing because it was fun, just like people like to play tennis. It makes your body feel good. Everybody gave you free beer. JanisI cant speak for young people, but I guess they [celebrate] the things theyve always celebrated - a joy of existence, a self-discovery, freedom - Jim MorrisonGet off your butt and feel things! Janis Talking about tracks such as Careful With That Axe, Eugene: "There is this schizophrenic half to the group, definitely a sort of macabre relish of titles like that..."-Richard Wright, Disc and Music Echo, February 1972."I didn't actually listen to drummers, I listened to riffs and I play riffs on drums."-Keith Moon"Dave Getz had a foreshadowing dream that Janis would arrive with a glow, beautiful like a goddess. When she came in the flesh, she was dressed in the light cotton clothes she had packed for her week-long trip to Austin, but they were out of place in cool San Francisco. Her shy innocence shone in a face blemished by acne. Then she sang, and her pure notes captured the band's full attention. With her commanding voice, they knew that, everything else aside, Janis had the sound they wanted. The band was complete." - Laura Joplin in "Love, Janis""The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."-Bob Marley"...It's worth all the hassles and bad rehearsals just to have 1500 kids really digging you. And for me to have a musician from another band tell me that I'm the best chick blues singer, bar none - not even Bessie Smith. Happened this weekend SIGH!!" Janis, in a letter to her mother.I think its amazing, just in the last 5 yearsyoung people have become increasingly aware of the power and the influence they have as a group. Jim MorrisonPaul McCartney's debut with the Quarrymen - 56 years ago today. This picture is actually from around 1 month later but is the first documented picture of Paul & John playing together. "For my first gig, I was given a guitar solo on Guitar Boogie. I could play it easily in rehearsal so they elected that I should do it as my solo. Things were going fine, but when the moment came in the performance I got sticky fingers; I thought, 'What am I doing here?' I was just too frightened; it was too big a moment with everyone looking at the guitar player. I couldn't do it. That's why George was brought in." - Paul McCartney

On the band's lack of special stage clothing: "We are convinced that dressing for a show doesn't help the music we perform. The images and the lights help you to perceive the music. The public watches the images on the screen and doesn't have time to divert their attention to our dress..."-Nick Mason, Ciao 2001, May 1975"Professional ambition? To smash 100 drum kits." -Keith Moon, 1965As John Lennon recalled in 1980, "We did a lot of tracks that were never on record for Saturday Club - they were well recorded, too." Paul remembers, "We'd been raised on the BBC radio programs. One of the big things in our week was Saturday Club - this great show was playing the kind of music we loved, so that was something we really aspired to."Ringo Starr said in 1994, "You tend to forget that we were a working band. It's that mono sound. There were usually no overdubs. We were in at the count-in and that was it. I get excited listening to them.""Everything was done instantly," remembered George Harrison, "But before that, we used to drive 200 miles in an old van down the M1, come into London, try and find the BBC and then set up and do the program. Then we'd probably drive back to Newcastle for a gig in the evening!"The debate about using a capo on a bass ..... "What am I doing there? Well, the thing with the bass on a lot of this stuff was that I'd try anything once. So I'll try a capo. I often do that when I'm writing a song - stick a capo on just so it's a different instrument than the one I normally play. Everything goes up a little bit and goes more tingly, and you get a song that reflects that. So it may well have been that we'd written a song on guitars: a certain key, so I only knew it in that key. Or maybe it was to get a higher sound. I often used to tune the strings down a tone, too, so the E would become a D. I would just mess around with any experimental effects. I'd try anything!" [Source: Bass Player magazine 1995, Tony Bacon interviewing Paul McCartney.]"That became a very big bond between John and me, because he lost his mum early on, too. We both had this emotional turmoil which we had to deal with and, being teenagers, we had to deal with it very quickly. We both understood that something had happened that you couldn't talk about - but we could laugh about it, because each of us had gone through it. It wasn't OK for anyone else. We could both laugh at death - but only on the surface. John went through hell, but young people don't show grief - they'd rather not. Occasionally, once or twice in later years, it would hit in. We'd be sitting around and we'd have a cry together; not often, but it was good."Paul McCartneyAnthology"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph." - Haile Selassie I

Moonlight Drive was the first song we played together. Before that, Jim had come over to my house to meet me John brought him over, John Densmore and I were buddies from high school. Id just got a new guitar and I was fooling around with slide you know, bottleneck and Jim really liked that. He thought it would go good on Moonlight Drive." - Robby "Drum solos are fucking boring. Any kind of solo is. It detracts from the group identity." -Keith Moon"For our last number I'd like to ask your help. The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'd just rattle your jewellery. We'd like to sing a song called Twist And Shout.".-John Lennon"Certainly theres no one Id rather work with than The Who."-Keith MoonSo if you're getting more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it, man. You know, it's just music. Music music's supposed to be different than that. Janis"I was immediately struck by their music, their beat, and their sense of humour on stage - and, even afterwards, when I met them, I was struck again by their personal charm. And it was there that, really, it all started."-Brian Epstein.."If you rehearse every day, you start getting clichd and you end up like an automaton, you can rehearse it to death. As far as we go, as long as we have the bare bones of a song, that's the way we rehearse."-Keith Moon"I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is." - George Harrison"Knowing the four of us can go onstage and give enjoyment to that many thousand people, that's something. Man, that does me right in." -Keith Moon"A lot of people really have never understood how important Keith's drumming style was to The Who." -Roger DaltreyI got on stage, and I started singing, whew! What a rush, man!...I dont remember it at all, all I remember is the sensation. What a fuckin gas, man. Janis Joplin"It's the music. Your heart is in your ears."-Bob Marley"I tried several things and this was the only one I enjoyed doing." -Keith MoonWe made some incredible music. Its great how well it holds up. The songs are still relevant; the kids are listening to the music today. It worked. And there were many, many magic moments, when it really worked. When youre together, the band is together and the audience is together, it creates a magic moment. Its a spiritual moment.' Ringo Starr"I find it very difficult to be serious... I always see things in a very funny way." -Keith Moon"I was in hospital visiting Maureen and Jason, whod just been born. When I was there, I got two messages: one from John and one from George. They said, Weve just seen this guy, Maharishi, doing a seminar in the Hilton, and, Youve got to see him! So we went to Wales and met Maharishi. While we were on that trip, Brian died, so we came back.

The following year, we went to visit Maharishis ashram in India. There are lots of other pictures, taken by other people, but thats a line-up of Jane, Paul, John, Cynthia and Maureen. I wasnt there for too long just for a couple of weeks. We had to get back because wed just had a baby, and that was enough time to be away from him. It was an incredible trip, though. I thank Maharishi to this day; he gave me a mantra that I can still use." Ringo StarrDeath is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. Nelson Mandela"Nelson Mandela was one of the great men of all time. I particularly admired his lack of bitterness towards his jailers, which I think set the tone for South Africa's transition to democracy."I never actually got to meet him although I wished I could have done and, in fact, I would say he is the greatest man I never met."- Paul McCartney"I dont think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music." -Keith Moon"I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the song, not the person, is what attracts people.".-Bob Marley"I love this shot of John and George listening to a tape. Look at the size of the damn thing! It's a little player and they've plugged it into a radio. It wasn't all great sound in those days; you just got the best that you could." Ringo Starr"There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations." Joey Ramone"Keith's style really developed after he got more drums; once he got a really big kit with two bass drums, that's when he really started shining." -John Entwistle"There is no end to this music, ya understand? This music you gonna put up in your house, on a placard, as one of the vehicles that helped to free the people from [...] oppression."- Bob MarleyI enjoyed my life when I had nothingand kinda liked just being happy with me. Joey RamonePaul McCartney is still hungry for success after remaining at the top of the music industry for 50 years. "It seems to me that no matter how famous, no matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you. "I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me'. It's a very common thing. One thing that's good about it is, I think it's a good motivator. It keeps you hungry. I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire," he said. Paul, 71, revealed the song 'Early Days' on his latest album 'New' was an attempt to set the record straight about his early life with John Lennon. "So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written (about) the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. "And people will say, 'Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that'. And I'll be reading and think, 'Well, that didn't happen' and 'That's not why I did that'. I was remembering John and I in Liverpool as young boys, walking down the street, dressed in black, guitars slung across our backs, trying to get people to listen to our music.- Paul McCartneyWhy should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? Janis Joplin"When youve got money and you do the kind of things I get up to, people laugh and say that youre eccentric...which is a polite way of saying youre fucking mad." -Keith Moon"Until the color of a man's skin, is of no more significance, than the color of his eyes...".- Bob Marley"Nothing really affected me until Elvis." - John Lennon"Phil Everly was one of my great heroes. With his brother Don, they were one of the major influences on The Beatles. When John and I first started to write songs, I was Phil and he was Don. "Years later when I finally met Phil, I was completely starstruck and at the same time extremely impressed by his humility and gentleness of soul. "I will always love him for giving me some of the sweetest musical memories of my life." - Paul McCartney"I am not The Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't The Beatles, The Beatles are The Beatles. Separately, they are separate." - John Lennon"Keith was like a keyhole on lunacy that I could always get access to..." -Jeff Beck"For an average of fifty grand a night they can bust my chops all they want." Jim Morrison to Ellen Sandler on his feelings about vicious press. (Hit Parader, November, 1969.)"When he sang those lines 'Let's swim to the moon/Let's climb through the tide/Penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide' I said that's it...It seemed as though, if we got a group together, we could make a million dollars." Ray Manzarek"The world used us as an excuse to go mad" - George Harrison"I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly." George Harrison"We saw music as a vehicle to, in a sense, become proselytisers of a new religion, a religion of self, of each man as God." Ray Manzarek (Quoted in Q, 1990.)"Posession make ya rich? I no have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever."- Bob MarleyThe more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.-Bob Marley"I was always telling people I was a drummer before I got a set: a mental drummer." -Keith MoonGo back to the hotel and freak out all those straights.- Janis Joplin"Ser generoso de espritu es una maravillosa manera de vivir." - Pete Seeger"There was a plan to play live somewhere. We were wondering where we could go - 'Oh, the Palladium or the Sahara.' But we would have had to take all the stuff, so we decided, 'Let's get up on the roof.' We had Mal and Neil set the equipment up on the roof, and we did those tracks. I remember it was cold and windy and damp, but all the people looking out from offices were really enjoying it." Ringo Starr"I think that, more than writing music and as a singer, my greatest talent is that I had an instinctive knack of self-image propagation. I was very good at manipulating publicity with a few little phrases like 'erotic politics'. Having grown up on television and mass magazines, I knew instinctively what people would latch on to. So I dropped those little jewels in here and there seemingly very innocently of course just calling signals." Jim Morrison on self-awarenessIf I were in the newspaper [business], I would do a lot of interviews, because what I want to say I would get it across.-Bob Marley"I believe very positively in colour in drumming. You know, theres so many drummers that can go through the routine but they dont add colour anywhere. They dont paint with the kit. Thats what I like doing. I like painting, adding colour and effects and shocking people." -Keith Moon"Musics for grooving man, and musics not for putting yourself through bad changes, yknow? I mean, you dont have to take anybodys shit, man, just to like music, yknow what I mean? You dont. Soso if youre getting more shit than you deserve, you know, what to do about it man. Yknow, its just music. Musicsmusics posed to be different than that. - Janis Joplin"Its just creating an environment where theyre as comfortable as they are as the rehearsals. Where it feels natural and easy." - Rick Rubin"It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that." - Tony Iommi"I have never known a drummer more widely acclaimed and publicized than you, Ringo Starr. Your millions of fans have honored you and the other members of The Beatles by their overwhelming acceptance of your recordings and concert appearances. On behalf of the employees and management of The Ludwig Drum Company, I would like to thank you for choosing our instruments and for the major role you are playing in the music world today."- Bill Ludwig"I do have to agree with [Joey's fans] that the Ramones are the most influential band to change music and fashion since The Beatles." Mickey Leigh"We thought, let's scare the whole f*cking planet with music." - Ozzy Osbourne"We were aware that Ed Sullivan was the big one because we got a telegram from Elvis and the Colonel. And I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes."-George Harrison"In the beginning we were creating our music ourselves, every night Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music." - Jim Morrison"I'm the greatest Keith Moon-type drummer in the world!" -Keith MoonJanis Joplin is instantly, aggressively friendly. Im a complete stranger and right away shes asking me to massage her neck and kissing me hello with a scorching cat-lick of my right eyebrow. She wears her sexuality with an arrogance tainted with derision. Yet shes a woman of little femininity. Her voice is wild, raw and Lead Belly strangulated, and her features are rough and workmanlike. She is a formidable lady. - The Evening Standard in 1969 on Janis"Overcome the devils with a thing called love." Bob Marley"I get incredible letters, but they teach me how to live rather than me teach them. My fans are intelligent youngsters and very sensitive." -Jim Morrison"Todas mis letras han sido pedazos de poesa y los pedazos de poesa se toman de poemas que comnmente no tiene significado en primer trmino". Kurt Cobain ( 20 de febrero de 1967 - 5 de abril de 1994)"Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world." Ozzy"He didn't know why he was so good. He just played naturally. He was a very natural drummer." -John Entwistle"The nonstop change was amazing," said Harrison. "At the age of 17 I was in Hamburg, and by the time I was 23, we had done Sgt. Pepper....We put in maybe 20 years in every year, just in experience.""Sometimes I felt a thousand years old. It was aging me. It was a question of either stop or end up dead." -George Harrison"George talked a lot about his nervous system, that he just didn't want to hear loud noise anymore. He didn't want to be startled. He didn't want to be stressed." -Olivia Harrison"When you smoke ganja, you don't want to war." Bob Marley"You just never knew quite where the drums were going or what was going on." -The Edge, U2 (About Keith Moon)"They had beautiful melodies to them that would just allow for chord changes and improvisations, and I said, man, this is incredible, let's get a rock and roll band together." -Ray Manzarek on Jim's early compositions."Favorite Food? Blues. Miscellanious likes? Birds. Professionsal ambition? To smash 100 drum kits. Personal ambition? To stay young forever." -Keith MoonBecause, you see, you just cant overthrow the truth. We, our people, have our roots. When we search for it, find it in a Rasta. Bob Marley"He was amazing. He really was the heart and soul of The Who." -Alice Cooper (About Keith Moon)"If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself." - John Lennon"If you wanna hear what the people are saying, you can hear what the Rastaman saying." .- Bob MarleyHoney, I love to go to parties, and I like to have a good time, but if it gets too pale after a while, honey, and I start looking to find one good man. From One Good Man On Kozmic Blues"Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything." - Joey Ramone "My whole style of drumming changed when I joined the band. Before, I had just been copying straight from records, but with the Who I had to develop a style of my own." -Keith MoonI think it may be just what Bob Marley stand for the truth, and the determination to stay alive.- Bob Marley"People even today come up to me and say 'Don't you get tired of playing Light My Fire?' I say 'Are you kidding? Do you get tired of having sex?'Come on, man! Do you get tired of fucking?'" - Ray Manzarek"Dreaming to be someone else, is a waste of who you are"- Kurt Cobain"Make my coffee sweet and warm, just the way you used to lie in my arms."- Bob Marley"Mick tells the tale of seeing us there with long suede coats that wed picked up in Hamburg, coats that no one could get in England. He thought, Right I want to be in the music business; I want one of those coats."-Paul McCartneyWe should really love each other in peace and harmony; instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be. If you get down and quarrel every day, you're saying prayers to the devil."- Bob MarleyYoure up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. Its a fine spring day. Were riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue.- Paul McCartney"As for Keith...I am glad I am not a drummer because it would be so hard for me to sum up such an originator with his incredible influence!" -Phil Soussan"I wouldn't say Rastafarians have a bad reputation, I would say people give the Rastafarians a bad reputation.-Bob is interviewed in Canada, June 1978."Music, writing, theatre, action - I'm doing all those things. I like to write, I'm even publishing a book of my poems pretty soon, stuff I had that I realised wasn't for music. But songs are special. I find that music liberates my imagination. When I sing my songs in public, that's a dramatic act, not just acting as in theater, but a social act, real action." - Jim Morrison in 1968Paul wrote the main structure of this when he was 16, or even earlier. I think I had something to do with the middle. John Lennon, 1972 (Love me do)"Im happiest playing drums. I likes to hitI likes hitting. Keith Moon, 1969"I was hearing in my head a whole concert situation...with a band an audience, a large audience. Those first five or six songs I wrote, I was just really taking notes at this fantastic concert that was going on inside my head...and once I'd written these songs, I just had to sing them." - Jim Morrison"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."-Bob Marley"I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but Ive made a career out of it now." - Ozzy Osbourne"A drummer doesnt need to think about what hes doing. He just does it." -Keith Moon"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever." Bob Marley"To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else." Janis Joplin on her goals"The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me." -Joe Walsh"The night I met Linda I was in the Bag ONails watching Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames play a great set. Speedy was banging away. She was there with the Animals, who she knew from photographing them in New York. They were sitting a couple of alcoves down, near the stage. The band had finished and they got up to either leave or go for a drink or a pee or something, and she passed our table. ...I was near the edge and stood up just as she was passing, blocking her exit. And so I said, Oh, sorry. Hi. How are you? Howre you doing? I introduced myself, and said, Were going on to another club after this, would you like to join us?That was my big pulling line! Well, Id never used it before, of course, but it worked this time! It was a fairly slim chance but it worked. She said, Yes, okay, well go on. How shall we do it? I forget how we did it. You come in our car or whatever, and we all went on, the people I was with and the Animals, we went on to the Speakeasy." - Paul McCartney - (Many Years From Now, Barry Miles)When I get there, I'll see Jim and Danny again and we'll go prowl the Sunset Strip of Heaven together and laugh all the way through eternity. - Ray ManzarekWe never sold ourselves out or went the route to have a hit by doing something that wasnt us. Yknow what I mean? Joey Ramone"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." -Jim Morrison"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."- Bob MarleyI try to do my music about what my experiences are- George Harrison"Rock 'n' Roll is a mad bloody world..." -Keith Moon"The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race."- Bob Marley"I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh." -Keith Moon"If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling." Geezer"Herb is the unification of mankind."- Bob MarleyRay Charles stated,I knew that being blind was suddenly an aid. I never learned to stop at the skin. If I looked at a man or woman, I wanted to see inside. Being distracted by shading or coloring is stupid. It gets in the way. Its something I just cant see. (Brother Ray, 1978)"I agree that our popularity has hit a peak. But I also agreed with a man who said the same thing last year. And we were both wrong!" - Paul McCartney"He's got tremendous feel. He always helped us to hit the right tempo for a song, and gave it that support that rock-solid back-beat that made the recording of all the Beatles' songs that much easier."- George Martin

"Ringo's got the best back beat I've ever heard and he can play great 24-hours a day. Ringo could be the best rock and roll drummer -- or at least one of the best rock and roll drummers. He does fills which crack up people like Jim Keltner. He's just amazed because Ringo starts them in the wrong place and all of that, but that is brilliance, that's pure feel."- George Harrison

"Ringo was a star in his own right in Liverpool before we even met. He was a professional drummer who sang and performed and had Ringo Starr-time. Ringo's a damn good drummer. He was always a good drummer. He's not technically good, but I think Ringo's drumming is underrated the same way Paul's bass playing is underrated.- John Lennon

"Ringo is still my favorite drummer."- Paul McCartney"Me gustara terminar siendo inolvidable".- Ringo Starr"I think the decision was made for meI found out that I really could not do anything else. I tried several things and this was the only one I enjoyed doing." -Keith Moon"There's some rules, I got some rules when I show down and I do my standup, I got rules and s**t." #Delirious Eddie Murphy"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship." - John Lennon"I think it was in a way the feeling that it might be our last, so let's just show 'em what we can do, let's show each other what we can do, and let's try and have a good time doing it." Paul McCartney"You don't 'turn' a Rasta. You can accept the truth."- Bob MarleyWe should all come together and create music and love.- Bob MarleyI dont come to bow. I come to conquer.- Bob Marley"Moon was doing things that just made us all work 100% harder. Not faster, not slower. 100% harder." -Roger DaltreyAnd, because my role in society - or any artist or poets role - is to try to express what we feel.--John Lennon"It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around in circles 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?"John Lennon, 1980When we stick posters around saying, War is over if you want it, what were trying to promote is an awareness in people of how much power they do have and not to rely on Government, or leader, or teacher so much that theyre all passive or automatons, and that initial after effect of the drug scene has to be regenerated. They have to have new hope, but everybodys looking for goals and answers, and youth especially, and what were trying to tell them is that, You are the goal. Nobody on earth can do it for you. Whatever it is you want, you must do it yourself, and what weve been promoting for just under a year and only now through our contacts is it coming people beginning to think, Oh well, it is my responsibility, again. People were thinking, This is the answer Drugs is the answer, but there is no answer, as we know. The answer is within and youve got to get on with it, and thats what were promoting, and it takes time but theres a lot of people like us and thinking like that and they will be pushing and promoting as well to get the people out of the grass and dropping in to change it, rather than dropping out and expecting rewards for that. John Lennon, 1971.

"Yoko was having an art show in London at a gallery called Indica Gallery and I heard this was going to be a happening. So I went down the night before the opening. And the first thing that was in the gallery as you went in there was a white stepladder and a painting on the ceiling and a spyglass hanging down. I walked up this ladder and I picked up the spyglass. It was balancing there. And in teeny little writing it just said "yes".If it had said "no" - or something nasty l...ike "rip-off" or whatever, I would have left the gallery but because it was positive, it said "yes" I thought "this is the first show I've been to that said something warm to me. Then I decided to see the rest of the show, and that's when we met."- John Lennon, 1972John: "They expect you to be a big-time star, but I think most people prefer us being the way we are. They come in biased. Then we'll just be natural with them and they seem pleased. That's all we do: if we're tired, we look tired, if we're happy, we're happy; we don't kid on. If we're feeling a bit 'off' that day, we say to them, 'I'm feeling a bit "off", I'm sorry, I won't be quick-witted."

I always did have a very heavy attachment for the whole Fitzgerald thing, that all-out, full tilt, hell bent way of living, and she [Zelda Fitzgerald] and F. Scott Fitzgerald were the epitome of that whole trip, right? - Janis Joplin to Rolling Stone.I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity .- John Lennon"If I'm good and the group is good, you can get 14,000...140,000! get them on their fucking feet! Yeah. That's where it's at. That's what it's all about for me." -Keith MoonYou must get the good stuff. Cause if you get the middle stuff, better ya smoke a cigarette.- Bob Marley

Me cant be prejudice. Me cant me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you cant be righteous.- Bob Marley Reggae is a vehicle, used to transmit a message of redemption to the people.- Bob Marley

I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition.- 1969, The Beatles."Nadie ms que uno puede liberar su mente de la esclavitud." -Bob Marley"Un da escrib una cancin y lo hice. Pero eso no me hizo cambiar. Eso de que descubr mi talento es un montn de mierda. No tengo talento, salvo para ser feliz o gandulear".- John LennonOn this day on 1964 a reporter asked John Lennon the question, "Your program was reviewed by a music critic and he said that you had 'unresolved leading tones, a false modal frame ending up as a plain diatonic.' What would you say to that?"John: He ought to see a doctor about that"It just came to me. Everybody was going on about karma, especially in the Sixties. But it occurred to me that karma is instant as well as it influences your past life or your future life. There really is a reaction to what you do now. That's what... people ought to be concerned about. Also, I'm fascinated by commercials and promotion as an art form. I enjoy them. So the idea of instant karma was like the idea of instant coffee: presenting something in a new form. I just liked it.""WHAT IS LIFE was written for Billy Preston in 1969. Because of the situation at the session it seemed too difficult to go in there and say 'Hey I wrote this catchy pop song' while Billy was playing his funky stuff. I did it myself later on 'All Things Must Pass'."- George Harrison

"I hate drum solos. Drum solos are the most boring, time consuming things. I dont think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music." -Keith MoonA mantra is mystical energy encased in a sound structure, and each mantra contains within its vibrations, a certain power. They are constructed from the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet and they turn the mind toward concentration on the supreme releasing spiritual energy in the Chakras of the Body. -George Harrison quote from I, Me, Mine book."They [Queen] have musical skill. I think you can tell when a band has musical skill.", Paul McCartneyWe wrote I'm Happy Just To Dance With You for George in the film. We knew that in E if you went to an A flat minor, you could always make a song with those chords; that change pretty much always excited you. Paul McCartney from Barry Miles Biography"If you rehearse every day, you start getting clichd and you end up like an automaton, you can rehearse it to death. As far as we go, as long as we have the bare bones of a song, that's the way we rehearse." -Keith Moon"Now is the time when you have to get conscious."- Bob MarleyI guess since the inception of rock & roll, there's only a handful of bands with such a distinct sound and style that you catch instantly; you know when you're hearing Led Zeppelin, you know when you're hearing The Beatles, and you know when you're hearing... the Ramones. Joey Ramone speaking with Rolling Stone, March 1994.Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Love in the Time of Cholera"Reggae is a vibration that you get from the earth, ya dig it..."- Bob Marley"My whole style of drumming changed when I joined the band. Before, I had just been copying straight from records, but with The Who I had to develop a style of my own." -Keith Moon"To make music is a life that I have to live."- Bob Marley"The extraordinary thing about Keith is, whatever you think of him as a drummerhe listened." -Pete TownshendCarl is such a sweet fellow and obviously he influenced me a great deal when I was young. I was so into his music. - George Harrison #quote "Carl Perkins had a notable meeting with the Beatles. The rocker was once a guest of the Fab Four in London and George Harrison asked him to play the first few bars of his 'Honey Dont.' Mr. Perkins obliged, then Mr. Harrison turned to fellow Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and said: See, I told you weve been doing it in the wrong key. The Beatles later recorded 'Honey Dont' -in the right key."-from 1995 Carl Perkins news release.The strange thing about change is that people are always saying 'oh he's changed' as if change is a sin, but the whole of life is a change: from the morning to the evening; from spring to winter-everything is a change-from birth to death; life is change. So it's funny how people won't accept change; preferring almost to rearrange nature itself.- George Harrison

"The world don't control me."- Bob MarleyThe bottom line is, as John Lennon said, it was only a little rock n' roll band."-George Harrison"I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about." - Janis Joplin"Herb is for the people mon, and we will always smoke herb."- Bob Marley"I started the chord sequences on the piano (which I don't really play) and then began writing idea for the words from various opposites: 'I want a love that's right But right is only half of what's wrong' Again it's the duality of things--yes-no, up-down, left-right, right-wrong, etc."- George Harrison"I just think [with] more of an inner creativeness, inna my chest. I don't make a tune specially for this and this... the feeling [just] comes nice into my soul according to a certain vibration."- Bob MarleyWhen "Help!" came out in '65, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock'n'roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help. It was my fat Elvis period. You see the movie: I am very fat, very insecure, and I've completely lost myself. And I am singing about when I was so much younger and all the rest, looking back at how ea...sy it was. Now I may be very positive - yes, yes - but I also go through deep depressions where I would like to jump out the window, you know. It becomes easier to deal with as I get older; I don't know whether you learn control or, when you grow up, you calm down a little. Anyway, I was fat and depressed and I was crying out for help. In those days, when the Beatles were depressed, we had this little chant. I would yell out, "Where are we going, fellows?" They would say, "To the top, Johnny," in pseudo-American voices. And I would say, "Where is that, fellows?" And they would say, "To the toppermost of the poppermost."- John Lennon, 1980 The really, really delicate, personal stuff - I still don't know to express it. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotion which I cannot seem to express in pop music. Maybe that's why I will search for other ways of expressing meself. I get frustrated about it. Because it is a limiting medium in some ways. -John Lennon, 1980 Songwriting and recording went very smoothly. We would be well-prepared, we'd go in, and we'd just put the stuff down. - Tommy RamoneAt 17 I used to wish an earthquake or revolution would happen. Now I've got something to lose. I don't want to die, and I don't want to be hurt physically, but if they blow the world up, fuck it, we're all out of our pain then, forget it, no more problems!I sing "Hold on John" because I don't want to die. I don't want to be hurt, and "please don't hit me."It's only going to be all right - it's now, this moment. That's all right, this moment, and hold on now we might have a ...cup of tea or we might get a moment's happiness any minute now. So that's what it's all about, just moment by moment. That's how we're living, cherishing each day and dreading it, too. It might be your last day. You might get run over by a car. And I'm really beginning to cherish it. I cherish life.- John Lennon, 1970Id rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be 70 sitting in some goddamn chair watching television... Janis Joplin"Jim was as clear as he could be onstage, and the guys moved to and fro with him, trusting the journey. Sometimes The Doors were raging with fire and energy; at other times, when Jim jumped into the lyric of a different song, in the middle of something else, they were right there with him." Bruce Botnick on The Doors Show In Pittsburgh, May 1970Ive always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. Its pretty basic when youre brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere. Even during the Beatle heyday I tried to go against it, so did George. We went to America a few times and Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when G...eorge and I said "Listen, when they ask next time, were going to say we dont like that war and we think they should get right out." Thats what we did. At that time this was a pretty radical thing to do, especially for the Fab Four. It was the first opportunity I personally took to wave the flag a bit.- John Lennon, 1971No messages from any phoney politician are coming through me. I said that earlier and it's still true. That still stands. I dabbled in so-called politics in the late Sixties and Seventies more out of guilt than anything. Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something, or get punched in the face, to prove I'm one of the people. The idea of leadership is a false god. If you want to ...use the Beatles or John and Yoko or whoever, people are expecting them to do something for them. That's not what's going to happen. But they are the ones who didn't understand any message that came before anyway. And they are the ones that will follow Hitler or follow Reverend Moon or whoever. Following is not what it's about, but leaving messages of "This is what's happening to us. Hey, what's happening to you?" We're sending postcards and letters. That's what we do. And that's different. Do you see? - John Lennon, 1980When I met Yoko and then fell in love, well, it was "My god! This is different from anything before. This is something other. I don't know what it is, but this is fine. Thank you, thank you, thank you! It's more than a hit record. It's more than gold, it's more than everything. It's more than. This is something indescribable!" The initial love blinds all. Everything is under shining lights and you want everybody to be happy just like you. It's rather dizzying. - Joh...n Lennon, 1980You know, I have to have the umph, I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either. Janis Joplin"George tried to teach himself [the guitar when he was 14 years old]. But he wasnt making much headway. Ill never learn this, he used to say. I said, You will, son, you will. Just keep at it. He kept at it till his fingers were bleeding. Youll do it, son, youll do it, I said to him. I sat up till two or three in the morning. Every time he said, Ill never make it, I said, You will, you will. I dont know why, really, I encouraged him so much. He wanted to do it, so that was enough for me. I suppose at the back of my mind I remembered all the things I wanted to do as a girl, but nobody encouraged me. So when it came to George, I helped all I could- Louise Harrison (George Harrisons mother)La msica es sinnimo de libertad, de tocar lo que quieras y como quieras, siempre que sea bueno y tenga pasin, que la msica sea el alimento del amor.*Kurt D. Cobain (1967-1994) Msico estadounidense"I'n'I is Rasta, and the struggle continues...".- Bob Marley"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."-B.B. King

"I wish I could play the guitar like B.B. King. If you would put me with B.B. King, I would feel real silly. Im an artist, and if you give me a tuba, Ill bring you something out of it.", John Lennon"This is a song that I used to sing when I was in the Cavern in Liverpool. I haven't done it since"...- John Lennon (introducing the song), 1971 (well, baby please dont go)

If Id lived in Roman Times, Id have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself John Lennon

I don't like borders. But I do fancy myself as a bit of an Irishman, and I'm always telling Yoko about battles that Britain won. Anti-nationalism will have to come through if we want peace....- John Lennon, 1969

"This is reggae, the King's music."- Bob Marley"Now, we came here not only to help John Sinclair and to spotlight what's going on, but also to show and to say to all of you that apathy isnt it and that we can do something. Okay, so flower power didnt work; so what? We start again. This song, I wrote for John Sinclair." - John Lennon, John Sinclair Benefit concert, 10 Dec 1972

MIND GAMESIt was originally called "Make Love Not War," but that was such a clich that you couldn't say it anymore, so I wrote it obscurely, but it's all the same story. How many times can you say the same thing over and over? When this came out, in the early Seventies, everybody was starting to say the Sixties was a joke, it didn't mean anything, those love-and-peaceniks were idiots: "We all have to face the reality of being nasty human beings who are born evil and everyth...ing's gonna be lousy and rotten so boo, hoo, hoo.... We had fun in the Sixties," they said, "but the others took it away from us and spoiled it all for us." And I was trying to say: "No, just keep doing it!- John Lennon, 1980

I want some improvement. It doesnt have to be materially, but it can be freedom of thinking.- Bob Marley

"The people realize that life is more than just working for the next man."- Bob MarleyNUMBER NINE DREAMMake your own dream. That's the Beatles story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and m...istresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshiped for the cover of the book and not what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you. It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around in circles 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? -John Lennon, 1980

Elton John sang on a single that turned out to be a cut from Walls And Bridges, "Whatever Gets You Through the Night." He sang harmony