The Beatles Quotes
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The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
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People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.
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It's amazing how low you go to get high.
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There are no problems, only solutions.
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To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.
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All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.
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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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I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
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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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People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
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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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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
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How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
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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 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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I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind...
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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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There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy... All you need is love.
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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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Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends...
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We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
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I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.