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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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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'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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The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
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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 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 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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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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
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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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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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One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
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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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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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America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.
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Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.
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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts.