The Beatles Quotes
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There are no problems, only solutions.
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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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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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Beatles, women and children first!
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Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
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The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.
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Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on stage and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.
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You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
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I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
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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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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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I want it to sound like an orange.
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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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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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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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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I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!
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I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!
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I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.
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I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.