The Beatles Quotes
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There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm going...
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I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.
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People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
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I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.
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He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
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I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
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The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.
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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'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.
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Tell the truth and make it rhyme...
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Yoko Ono was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.
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When Yoko Ono and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.
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As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.
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Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
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When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.
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I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.
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Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
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We all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you got to let it grow...
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I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.