The Beatles Quotes
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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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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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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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Drumming is my middle name.
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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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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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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
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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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The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
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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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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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I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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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 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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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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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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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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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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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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You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV...