The Beatles Quotes
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I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
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I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
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You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.
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Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
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Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.
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The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.
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There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
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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 thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
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If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.
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I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.
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I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.
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Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play...
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Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
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Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.
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I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.
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People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.
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I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.
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We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.
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We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.
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I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind...
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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