The Beatles Quotes
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I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
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I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
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Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
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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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I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
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This was the point of our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. They were called Preludin, and you could buy them over the counter. We never thought we were doing anything wrong, but we'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived.
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I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.
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Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
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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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People only look at me as a Beatle but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.
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I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
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If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.
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We went to America a few times and Brian Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George Harrison and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.
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Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
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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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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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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.