Words matter. These are the best Astrid Kirchherr Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren’t just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.
I was initially attracted to John when I first went to see them play. Then I got to know Stuart because he was John’s best friend. Our hearts took over from there.
Black and white means photography to me. It’s much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.
I’m a very, very silly girl.
I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.
For me, the music of the Beatles then was serious and very, very serious art. So I couldn’t take a picture of John laughing his head off or pulling funny faces because he was a serious artist, even when he was only 20.
After Stu, I liked John and George. Then I like Pete Best. Paul I found hard to get close to.
When I met the Beatles, they were wearing these funny little leather jackets, which inspired me. I had a suit made for myself out of fine, good black leather. It looked different. I was using leather but putting a different fashion angle on how it looked.
I’ve hardly taken a photograph since 1967.
I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.
John’s legacy? His bravery. When he had the power, he used it. He really wanted peace on Earth, and John’s lyrics, well, that’s the brave poetry of the ’60s. If he had stayed with us, he could have done so much more.
And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.
Well when you’re young, you’re just in love and every day is so new and so fresh and so beautiful. You just don’t think of the future.
You couldn’t buy any English authors or anything that came from America, like jeans. It was impossible. So we had to do our own clothes if we had weird ideas like wearing long scarves like the French people did. You had to knit them yourself.
I was wanting something new, and for me the Beatles were… outstanding. I was breathless, speechless.
For me, they are still my dear friends, not the Beatles.
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.
I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you’ve got to take everybody.
Well, the first time I met The Beatles was through my former boyfriend, Klaus Voormann, who saw them one night when he was wandering around Hamburg and then he heard this beautiful sound of rock ‘n’ roll music.
