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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
John Lennon The Beatles -
With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
John Lennon The Beatles -
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.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing...
John Lennon The Beatles -
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon The Beatles -
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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Very rich.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
John Lennon The Beatles
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Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up … I cannot be on the way up again. … What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I'm not interesting in being a dead (expletive) hero. … So forget 'em, forget 'em.'
John Lennon The Beatles -
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
John Lennon The Beatles