Wonderful Tonight Quotes

“On first impressions, John seemed more cynical and brash than the others, Ringo the most endearing, Paul was cute, and George, with velvet brown eyes and dark chestnut hair, was the best-looking man I'd ever seen. At the break for lunch I found myself sitting next to him, whether by accident or design I have never been sure. We were both shy and spoke hardly a word to each other, but being close to him was electrifying.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass; you know his faults so let his foibles pass.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“As long as you were young, beautiful and creative, the world was your oyster. It was a golden age, an exciting time to be alive.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Being the muse of two such extraordinarily creative musicians and having beautiful, powerful love songs written about me was enormously flattering but it put the most tremendous pressure on me to be the amazing person they must have thought I was—and secretly I knew I wasn’t. I felt I had to be flawless, serene, someone who understood every situation, who made no demands but was there to fulfill every fantasy; and that’s someone with not much of a voice. It’s not realistic: no one can live up to that kind of perfection. Now I feel I can be myself—but it took me quite a while to discover that and even longer to work out who I was exactly because the “me” in me had been hidden for so long. For most of my life I’d been what others expected me to be—the eight-year-old who could cope with boarding school, the protective, all-knowing older sister whom all her siblings looked up to, the sixties icon, the glamorous model. Do you have any idea what having your face on the front cover of Vogue does for the ego?”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Eric and I were playmates, but George and I were soul mates, and I had let something special go without analyzing what was happening between us.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“All my life I had been nearsighted but never known it. It might explain why I was so cripplingly shy—I couldn’t see people properly.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Life was very different with the sober Eric—he was very different. He had never been good at expressing himself verbally, but now he didn’t want to talk at all. He’d lost his sense of fun. The practical jokes, mad antics, and laughter had gone. It was as though he had lost his personality. Worse, I detected in him an underlying sense of injustice. I was still drinking and so was everyone around him—no one had told me I should stop, which, in retrospect, might have helped him.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“He wasn’t easy to be with. I felt he was angry—angry that he couldn’t do the one thing he enjoyed in life, which was have a drink. He couldn’t understand why it was denied him. Even after six weeks at Hazelden, I don’t think he really understood that he was ill.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“All the ills in a family with an alcoholic member are blamed on him and his affliction until, subconsciously, their whole way of life revolves around him. Once he is better, he is no longer the same person, and everyone else has to learn to stand up straight too.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“It was like hitching a ride on a shooting star: a fantastic experience that caused immense pain, but I’m glad I had it. And I know I will never have those feelings again. That sort of experience doesn’t come twice. But because he inspired such passion in me I was willing to be with him and forgive his bad behavior, which I should not have done.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Yet I came to believe that although something about me might have made them put pen to paper, it was really all about them.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Eric only came alive when he was in front of an audience, feeding off the energy and excitement of the crowd. That was where and how he communicated. He once said to me that he saved all his emotion for the stage. When he was at home he was restless and uneasy. In some respects he was like George.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“After that he made sure Eric had only cold tea and 7UP to drink. Eric’s normal poison was Courvoisier and 7UP, which looked much the same as cold tea, and by that stage in the day he couldn’t tell the difference.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“He was surrounded by yes-men. When I challenged him about it he said, “Well, I’d hate to be surrounded by no-men.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“What I had felt for George was a great, deep love. What Eric and I had was an intoxicating, overpowering passion. It”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Cocaine was different and I think it froze George’s emotions and hardened his heart.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“The final straw was his affair with Maureen Starr, Ringo’s wife.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“In hindsight I wonder whether George’s pursuit of other women was a challenge: perhaps he was hoping to provoke me, hoping to make me put my foot down and reclaim him. At the time I saw it as rejection, and ever since the day my mother left me in Kenya while she sailed to England with Bobbie and Paula, I have lived in fear of being abandoned.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweet yet painful hopes. please forgive mine”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“To gauge his mood, we would ask whether his hands were “in or out of the bag”—meaning his prayer bag. If they were in it, he was in spiritual mode and incommunicado; if they were out, there was a chance of talking to him.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“I think owning that huge house and garden created confusion in him. It was a constant reminder of how rich and famous he was, and that gave him a sense of power, but in his heart he knew was just a boy from Liverpool who was extremely talented and had got lucky. He had embraced spirituality with an obsessive intensity, yet he wanted to experience everything he had missed by becoming famous so young. He once told me that he felt something in life was evading him. But he wouldn’t—perhaps couldn’t—go out and be normal.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“He did as he had threatened. He took the heroin and quickly became addicted.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass; you know his faults so let his foibles pass.” How”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“That night, a guy I knew called Denny Laine sang a beautiful song called “Go Now” I was feeling really chilled until his girlfriend grabbed me and gave me a tongue sandwich. I was so shocked, but she was drunk, as we all were, and later became one of the Marquess of Bath’s wifelets, so I’m sure she didn’t fancy me. “A fantastic night to remember,” I wrote in my diary—and it wasn’t that kiss that had made it special.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“John’s conviction was equally damaging. A deportation order was served on him when he and Yoko were living in America, which took four years to resolve, and meant he couldn’t leave the country for fear of not being allowed back in; Yoko was convinced that that contributed to her losing custody of her daughter, Kyoko.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Princess Margaret was standing with my youngest sister Paula, who was in the process of handing the Queen’s sister a joint she had just lit. After everything we’d been through that evening, it was too much. I leaped at her and said, “Don’t!” When I told them what had happened, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon beat a hasty retreat.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Keith spent three at Her Majesty’s pleasure and came out saying he intended to prosecute the queen for allowing cannabis to be smoked on her property—he had been offered half a dozen joints in prison and “they were fab.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“The judge found him guilty of “subconscious plagiarism.” After that we never had a radio playing in the house in case he was unconsciously influenced by a song he had heard.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“John and Paul were the closest in some ways and immensely creative together, but they clashed if they were in each other’s pockets for too long.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“. I couldn’t work out what message she was delivering and it left me feeling confused. I had the same sensation when I saw my first Laurel and Hardy movie. The two characters were being chased by someone in a car up a hill and at the top there was a sheer cliff—it was clear to me that they were going to die. I was weeping, yet everyone else was laughing. I couldn’t understand why they thought it was so funny.”
― Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight