The Beatles Quotes
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.
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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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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 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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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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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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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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It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. 'Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's 'Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' Then in the end, it's like 'Oh, sod off with the Beatles,' you know?
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Drumming is my middle name.
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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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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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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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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 do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.