The Beatles Quotes
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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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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
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Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.
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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
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I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.
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Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
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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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Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.
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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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Elvis died the day he went into the army.
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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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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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Drumming is my middle name.
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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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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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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I've sold my soul to the devil.
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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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Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.
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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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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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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.