The Beatles Quotes
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We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.
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I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.
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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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Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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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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From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.
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One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
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Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
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I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love them.
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I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
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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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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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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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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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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Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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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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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.
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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...