The Beatles Quotes
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We didn't have a strong drug scene by any means. Originally, it was just purple hearts, amphetamines, speed or whatever you want to call it. When The Beatles went down south, they sometimes brought back cannabis and gradually the drug scene developed in Liverpool.
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They The Beatles were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
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Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
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My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.
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And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.
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Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.
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Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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When I was into The Beatles, I cut my hair into a Beatle haircut, which looked so ridiculously stupid with my little cat-eye glasses that I wore.
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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
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I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.
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If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
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Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
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Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?
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I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
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People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
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I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
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When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.
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We're genre-sluts, really. We're all good players, and I don't see why we should have to confine ourselves into playing in one particular style. The Beatles never did. It's whatever floats the boat, really.
