Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.