The Beatles Quotes
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Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away
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In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
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The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
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Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.
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Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
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I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
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I’d like to end up sort of… unforgettable.
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It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. 'Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's 'Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' Then in the end, it's like 'Oh, sod off with the Beatles,' you know?
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Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
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In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.
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The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
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We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write – we all wrote – about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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Last night I had a peace dream.
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It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
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Drumming is my middle name.
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I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.
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You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.
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I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.