The Beatles Quotes
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Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
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I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music. And that`s the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
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There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
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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 am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
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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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I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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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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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
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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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John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude...
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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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When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
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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 you wake up and your heart is going like the clappers or your back feels strained, or you develop some other hang-up, you should let your mind go to the pain and the pain itself will regurgitate the memory which originally caused you to suppress it in your body. In this way the pain goes to the right channel instead of being repressed again, as it is if you take a pill or a bath, saying 'Well, I'll get over it'. Most people channel their pain into God or masturbation or some dream of making it.
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We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.
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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 don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.
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I always read the papers, the political bits.