The Beatles Quotes
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I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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Art is only a way of expressing pain.
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I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.
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Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of Bob Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.
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If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
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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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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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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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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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It's amazing how low you go to get high.
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All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
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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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Don't hate what you don't understand!
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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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The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
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How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
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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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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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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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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends...
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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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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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Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?