"I was immediately struck by their music, their beat, and their sense of humor onstage. And even afterward when I met them, I was struck again by their personal charm. And it was there that really it all started..." - Brian Epstein

"The thing I'm afraid of is growing old. I hate that. You get old and you've missed it somehow. The old always resent the young and vice versa." - John

"Naturally, I am part of my generation. I like the way people bring things out in the open. I'd hate it if when you spoke about sex everybody curled away." - George

"I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable." - Ringo

"I don't think any of us had been bothered with having haircuts, and it was always long. Paul and John went to Paris and came back with it - something like this. And I went to the baths and came out with it like this." - George

"'How long are you going to last?' Well, you can't say, you know? You can be bigheaded and say, 'Yeah, we're going to last ten years.' But as soon as you've said that, you think, 'We're lucky if we last three months.'" - John

"We can't keep playing the same sirt if music until we're about forty. Old men playing 'From Me to You'? Nobody is going to want to know at all about that sort of thing." - Paul

"Well, I suppose we'll stay doing this sort of stuff for a couple of years. Naturally we won't be able to stay at this level. But, we should have another two years at least, I think." - George

"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." - John, Royal Variety Performance

Q: "What's the hardest problem you encounter trying to manage The Beatles?"
Brian Epstein: "Well, none really. But I think traveling around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, because you don't know what's going to happen."

Ken Dodd: "Let's invite suggestions for an earthy name for me. What about one?"
George: "Sod."

"I've always fancied having a ladies hairdressing salon. A string of them! Strut around in me stripes and tails, you know: 'Like a cup of tea, Madam?'" - Ringo

Q: "The French have not made up their minds about The Beatles. What do you think of them?"
John: "Oh, we like The Beatles. They're gear."

Q: "Do you think this is a fad?"
John: "Obviously. Anything in this business is a fad. We don't think we're going to last forever. We're just going to have a good time while it lasts."

Q: "Did you know that the Duke of Edinburgh was recently quoted as saying he thought you were on your way out?"
John: "Good luck, Duke."
George: "No comment. See my manager."

Q: "What's the rudest question you've been asked in Australia?"
Ringo: "The rudest was, someone said to me, 'How are you doing, John?'"

Q: "Well, happy birthday, Ringo! Any good presents?"
Ringo: "Quite a few."
Q: "Anything in particular?"
Ringo: "No. The fans sent me a lot of cards and dolls and rings, and that. Oh, I got one funny one from America - a bull ring, off a bull's nose. I don't know if that is an insult or what."

Q: "What do you boys plan to do in San Francisco other than sleep?"
John: "Sleep."

Q: "Well, it was said in Las Vegas and in San Francisco that your performance couldn't be heard because of the noise. Now, how do you feel about this? Do you consider it might hurt your future concerts?"
Paul: "It's been going on for a couple of years, you know."
Q: "How many more years do you think it will go on?"
John: "We're not taking bets."
Q: "Have you got any idea? Will it be three? Four? What do you think?"
George: "Till death do us part."

"We don't like it if there's any segregation or anything, because we're not used to it, you know? We've never played to segregated audiences before, and it just seems mad to me. I mean, it may seem right to some people, but to us, it just seems a bit daft." - Paul

"I doubt if we'll be changing our hairstyles for a while. I think the next stage will be when we go bald." - Ringo

"I used to say to George Harrison, 'God, I'd like to go on a bus again.' George would say, 'Why would you want to do that?' His dad had been a bus driver and I think maybe George could not see the romance of traveling on a bus that I would. I always saw it as sitting upstairs, smoking a pipe like a poet. Sitting on the top of a bus composing things." - Paul

"We could send out four waxwork dummies of ourselves and that would satisfy the crowds. Beatles concerts are nothing to do with music anymore. They're just bloody tribal rites." - John

"They'd actually given up trying to play properly. I think they got sucked into the whole aura of the thing. John went up there with a very lax thing. It wasn't the band I saw on the way up at the Star Club." - Cliff Bennett, support artist in Germany

Q: "There's an old German song that says, 'Why is it so beautiful on the Rhine?' You've traveled along the Rhine; what are your impressions?"
John: "We were asleep!"

Q: "If you would have to buy a ticket for your own performance, how much would you pay for it?"
John: "We know the manager, so we get in free."