The Beatles Quotes
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Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?
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The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
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Art is only a way of expressing pain.
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I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.
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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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With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.
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It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.
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The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
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I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
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I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
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I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.
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The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.
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Don't hate what you don't understand!
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It's amazing how low you go to get high.
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How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
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Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
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I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends...