The Beatles Quotes
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It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.
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Everything is clearer when you're in love.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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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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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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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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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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Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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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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I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.
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The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
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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'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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As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.
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I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!
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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
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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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I want it to sound like an orange.
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The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.
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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?