The Beatles Quotes
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Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
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At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.
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Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
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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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I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another...
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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 is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?
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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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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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And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends...
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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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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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The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.
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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
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Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
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I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.
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We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right.
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There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.
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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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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?