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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!
George Harrison The Beatles -
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon The Beatles
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We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.
John Lennon The Beatles -
From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.
John Lennon The Beatles -
They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John Lennon The Beatles -
The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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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.
John Lennon The Beatles -
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
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.
John Lennon The Beatles -
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 .
John Lennon The Beatles
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Elvis died the day he went into the army.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. … I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon The Beatles -
You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate
John Lennon The Beatles -
I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.
John Lennon The Beatles -
You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV...
John Lennon The Beatles -
I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.
John Lennon The Beatles -
What would you suggest I do? Give everything away and walk the streets? The Buddhist says, 'Get rid of the possessions of the mind.' Walking away from all the money would not accomplish that. It's like the Beatles. I couldn't walk away from the Beatles. That's one possession that's still tagging along, right?
John Lennon The Beatles -
Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away
Paul McCartney The Beatles