The Beatles Quotes
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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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Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
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I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
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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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The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
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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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Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing...
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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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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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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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Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
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He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
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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.
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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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I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
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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.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.