The Beatles Quotes
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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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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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You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
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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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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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Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them...
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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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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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I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
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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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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no 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.
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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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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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The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls 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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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 just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
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It depends who they are. If it's Mick Jagger or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton John, David Bowie are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.
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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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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.