The Beatles Quotes
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
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We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
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Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".
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With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
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She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
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Very rich.
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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
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One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."
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For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
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She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
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I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.
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LSD went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.
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When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
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I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.
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the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
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I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!