The Beatles Quotes
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I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
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The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'
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Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.
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Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.
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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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Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
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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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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.
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The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
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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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Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
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Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.
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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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After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.