Beatles Quotes
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"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
"And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make."
"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."
"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe."
"(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)"How do you find America?""Turn left at Greenland."
"Nothing is real."
"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you."
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
"It's all in the mind."
"When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
"I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."
"Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea."
"…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
"Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone."
"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one."
"War is over ... If you want it."
"Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you."
"There’s only the one, see. When you fall in love with a girl, she’s the bloody White Album. That is what you whisper to yourself, when you don’t understand her at all. You just keep telling yourself, she’s the bloody Beatles White Album and there’s only one of her."
Rob Sheffield, Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke
"And in the endthe love you takeis equal tothe love you make"
"Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one."
"Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one."
"I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over."
"It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?"
"Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better."
"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
"Well, the way you'd been, old ladyI could see the fear in your windowsUnder your furry crawling browA silver bow rings up in inchesYou were afraid you'd be the devil's red wifeBut it's alright, God dug your danceAnd would have you young and in his harum"
"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
"Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing."
"My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts."
"To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music."
"As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again."
"Whatever gets you through the night"
"We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on..."
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian."
Linda McCartney, Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat
"Why didn't anyone question "It's been a hard days night" Who talks like that anyway?"
"Take these broken wings and learn to fly."
Paul McCartney, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
"I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool."
"Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!"