The Beatles Quotes
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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.
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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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Drumming is my middle name.
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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.
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Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs, I don’t think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about.
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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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I mean we The Beatles had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
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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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There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.
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I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up - that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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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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Elvis died the day he went into the army.
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Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV...
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
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You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!