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I go to restaurants and the groups always play 'Yesterday.' I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us 'Yesterday.' He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing 'I Am The Walrus.'
John Lennon The Beatles -
That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.
John Lennon The Beatles -
It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, 'turn on and drop out, man' - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.
John Lennon The Beatles -
In regard to conscription 'I was always thinking I could go to Southern Ireland if it came to it but I didn't know what I was going to do there, I hadn't thought that far.'
John Lennon The Beatles -
A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.
John Lennon The Beatles -
It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Yoko Ono was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.
John Lennon The Beatles -
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.
John Lennon The Beatles
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
John Lennon The Beatles -
If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.
John Lennon The Beatles
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A working class hero is something to be.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon The Beatles -
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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.
John Lennon The Beatles