The Beatles Quotes
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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
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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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Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
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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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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.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV...
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Very rich.
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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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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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' It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
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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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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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And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.