John Lennon: I wrote this for George to sing. I'm always reading
how Paul and I used to make him invisible or keep him out, but it
isn't true. I encouraged him like mad.
John Lennon (in 1980) - "'I'm Happy Just To Dance With You,' that was written for George to give him a piece of the action. I couldn'ta sung it."
Paul McCartney (in 1994) - "We wrote 'I'm Happy Just To Dance With You' for George in the film. It was a bit of a formula song. We knew that in (the key of) E if you went to an A-flat-minor, you could always make a song with those chords... that change pretty much always excited you."