The Beatles Quotes
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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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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'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
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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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You can only breathe out if you breathe in.
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The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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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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There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
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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'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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I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
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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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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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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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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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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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Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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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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Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.
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There was never any question about it: we with Yoko Ono had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.
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Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.