The Beatles Quotes
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
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You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?
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Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
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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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You have to be! You might get shot!
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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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At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.
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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 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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You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.
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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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There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
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I hate click tracks. A lot of people I know like to use click tracks. Like my son is perfect on the click tracks. It makes me to edgy.