The Beatles Quotes
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I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.
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Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
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I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
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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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We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.
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It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.
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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
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Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
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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.
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I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.
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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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I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing - and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said - the basic things he laid down about love and goodness - and not what people say he said.
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...
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Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
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Instant Karma is going to get you.
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The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.
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It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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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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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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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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...if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!