Music Quotes

Blues is a good woman feeling bad.

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

I hate music, especially when it’s played.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Feed the musician, and he’s out of tune.

Music is only love looking for words.

A decisive moment in the history of Western civilization. (About “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” in the London Times, 1977)

I was sitting around a table with friends, smoking a joint, when we heard “Rubber Soul” for the very first time; and I’m smoking and I’m getting high and the album blew my mind because it was a whole album with all good stuff! It flipped me out so much, I said, “I’m gonna try […]

Groups are out, four piece groups with guitars particularly are finished. The boys won’t go, Mr. Epstein. We know these things. You have a good business in Liverpool. Stick to that. (Decca Records, 1962)