The Beatles Quotes
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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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You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
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I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.
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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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Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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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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All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.
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I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.
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For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.
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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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All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.
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My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
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It In My Life was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.
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Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
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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 spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
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"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.
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I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
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Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
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It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko Ono. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
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We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
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At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.