The Beatles Quotes
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The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
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There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
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Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
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The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
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Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.
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What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.
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If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that. ... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.
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I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.
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America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.
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I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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I'd thought it would be something like King's Road London, only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.
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Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.
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Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...
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He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song 'Taxman.' But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of 'Come Together' or three lines of 'Eleanor Rigby,' you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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Ringo is Ringo, that's all there is to it. And he's every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles...
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It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
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She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
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The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.
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That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.'
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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Elvis died the day he went into the army.
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.