The Beatles Quotes
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The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.
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I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
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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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I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
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I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
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Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
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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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We gave up everything just to sit at your table.
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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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I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!
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I used to wish that I could write songs, like the others-and I've tried, but I just can't. I can get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune the others always say it sounds like such-a-thing, and when they point it out, I see what they mean.
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The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear.
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Obladi oblada life goes on bra Lala how the life goes on
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
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If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole...
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I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.
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There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
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I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?