The Beatles Quotes
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I always read the papers, the political bits.
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I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night...
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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow
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Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
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To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul McCartney is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.
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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.'
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.
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It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
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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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Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.
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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.
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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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My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.
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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'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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I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.
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The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
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I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time with Sean. I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.
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I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
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I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
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News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican.