The Beatles Quotes
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Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV...
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
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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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My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.
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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
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In the band I was in, we knew when we’d done the take, because it just feels good. It’s like golf. When you hit that ball right, you know. You feel it – you feel the connection. And connecting is good.
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Everything is as important as everything else.
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The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.
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Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
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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.
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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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And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
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' It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.
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And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.
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She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.
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I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
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The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.
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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
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I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.
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From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.
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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.