The Beatles Quotes
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I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
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It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.
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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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Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.
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I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George Harrison would sit me down and make me listen.
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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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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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We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
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When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.
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I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore...
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Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
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Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
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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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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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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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It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.
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Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
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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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When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.
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I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
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Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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We went to America a few times and Brian Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George Harrison and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.