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One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.
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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.
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This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
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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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The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
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Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing...
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.
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You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate
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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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They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.
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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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When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it...
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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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Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
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I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.
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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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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.
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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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I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music. And that`s the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
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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.