The Beatles Quotes
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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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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.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.
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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
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Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!
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Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.
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After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
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Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
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I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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Songwriting 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 to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...
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If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.
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The more I see the less I know for sure.