The Beatles Quotes
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone.
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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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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
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I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!
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There are no problems, only solutions.
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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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I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
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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'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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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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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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We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
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I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
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When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.
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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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People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.
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Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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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There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
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Paul McCartney and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.
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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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It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.