The Beatles Quotes
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit - I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.
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The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.
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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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The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.
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We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.
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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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It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
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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.'
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.
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The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
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You have to be! You might get shot!
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.
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It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it's pretty hard to break out of that, to say 'Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.'
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.
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Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.
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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...