The Beatles Quotes
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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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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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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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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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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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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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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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My favorite album would have to be something from 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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Everybody in The Beatles was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.
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If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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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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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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Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.
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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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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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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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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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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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I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
