The Beatles Quotes
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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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You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.
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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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I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.
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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
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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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I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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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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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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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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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I'd Like to beUnder the seaIn an octopus's garden with you.
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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
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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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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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Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.
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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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I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.