The Beatles Quotes
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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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I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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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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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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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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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 was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.
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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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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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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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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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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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You can only breathe out if you breathe in.
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To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.
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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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It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
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There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
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But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.
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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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Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
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Before Elvis there was nothing.
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
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The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
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I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.