The Beatles Quotes
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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
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When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.
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I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.
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We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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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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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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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
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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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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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I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
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We had one thing in common – we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
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It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
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People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.
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Polythene Pam was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.
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I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
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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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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
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There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.
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Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.
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I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.