- Dominic Champagne: [welcoming McCartney to a preview performance] We're thrilled to have you here. Everyone is butterflies in the stomach.
- Paul McCartney: Good! I like to keep everyone in a state of tension.
- George Martin: He was a marvelous man, but he was never really satisfied with anything he did. In the year before he died, I spent a night with him and we talked about our times. And we had a lovely evening. And then suddenly, out of the blue, he said to me, "You know, George, if I could, I'd record everything we did - again." I said, "You can't be serious, John." I said, "We did some great stuff; what are you on about?" He said, "We could have done it better." I said, "What about 'Strawberry Fields'?" He said - he looks at me over his glasses and said - "ESPECIALLY 'Strawberry Fields.' " And I thought, gosh, you know, I practically bled for that song.
- George Martin: It's very difficult to escape this heritage that we have. I've been having memories brought back every day of my life, you know. There will be a little knot of Beatle fans somewhere who says, they shouldn't do that; they should leave the masters as we know them. But we're embarking on a new direction here.
- Paul McCartney: We've always liked to associate ourselves with people who are slightly crazy, 'cause we're slightly crazy. Artists are slightly crazy, you know?
- Olivia Harrison: I don't think you can put into words what George was like as a person. You know he says, in some of his songs, beware of sadness, all things must pass, life goes on within you and without you, and that's sort of practical advice that I have to apply in my life... he's not here.
- Giles Martin: [of the "While My Guitar Gentle Weeps" backing track recording at AIR Studios] The string players, they realized the significance of, d'you know, being your last string session...
- George Martin: Yeah. Absolutely.
- Giles Martin: ...and playing, you know, a Beatles string session, and at the end of it, they gave you a big bouquet of flowers.
- George Martin: They gave me two dozen red roses. Musicians!
- Giles Martin: Normally, they hand out invoices.
- [both laugh]
- George Martin: I was knocked out by that.
- Ringo Starr: I thought they could've made me a bit taller. Hah! That's the only thing I thought: can't I be taller now?
- George Martin: But we're also changing the actual tracks themselves; and this is a tightrope of taste that we're walking, because once you start tampering with Beatles material, you're tampering with the Holy Grail.
- Guy Laliberté: Can you imagine, we're the first company back in 35 years that's been able to make a deal, a business deal with the Beatles, we're partner with the Beatles. This is big. The Beatles, with the name they have, and us who never give away creative control, it was, how could you find a, you know, creative consensus?
- Paul McCartney: I was sitting next to Ringo, so it was great, because I just kept saying to him, "what a f - kin' great band we were." And you know, I should be more modest, I should be saying, oh, it was good, and thank you very much, but I don't care now. Beatles is over. It's a body of work. And I can now stand back and say, that was great.
- Yoko Ono: It's the... the light that... is not here anymore. You know. It's that one, isn't it? John was there, but it's very different from listening to his songs and seeing a show open. It always makes me feel a little bit, um... uh... uh, well, sad is not the word - well, it it, you know. I feel sad that he's just a voice now.