The Beatles Quotes
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Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret 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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You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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Some fella said to me, 'Have you had LSD, Paul?' And I said 'Yes.' And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.
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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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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
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I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.
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Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
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When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck 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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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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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
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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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I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
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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 felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
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Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.
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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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The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
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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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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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Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.