Best Beatles Quotes
The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. Here are some best Beatles quotes –
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“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and myself and I hoped we passed the audition.”
–John Lennon
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“What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.”
– John Lennon
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“You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.”
– John Lennon
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“You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.”
– John Lennon
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“When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.”
–John Lennon
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“Us, communists? Why, we can’t be communists. We’re the world’s number one capitalists. Imagine us communists!”
–Paul
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“I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.”
–Paul McCartney
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“We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.”
–John Lennon
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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.”
–Ringo Starr
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“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one”
– The Catcher in the Rye
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“I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.”
–George Harrison
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“Explaining the motives behind the breakup of the Beatles: “Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because i have a better time with my family.”
– Paul
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“I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”
–Timothy Leary
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“We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?”
–John Lennon
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“There’s high, and then there’s high, and to get really high–i mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high–that’s where i’m goin'”
–John
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“I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly'”
–George Harrison
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“Those of you in the cheaper seats, clap your hands. And the rest of you
just rattle your jewelry.”
–John
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“The Beatles saved the world from boredom.”
–George Harrison
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“Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.'”
–Paul
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“I am not the Beatles. I’m me.Paul isn’t the Beatles…The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.”
–John Lennon
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“I didn’t leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles–but no
one wants to be the one to say the party’s over.”
–John Lennon
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“John had his thing, and Paul had his, and together there were two different things all together. But they fit.”
–Billy Preston
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“One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: “It’s only me.” And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you’d just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.”
–Paul McCartney (on John Lennon)
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“When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care.”
–John Lennon
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“I’ve never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I’m here because it happened. But I didn’t do anything to make it happen apart from saying ‘Yes'”
–Ringo Starr
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“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.”
– John Lennon
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“It’s hard to follow my own act. But the only answer to that would be to give up after the Beatles. I only had two alternatives. Give up or carry on.”
–Paul McCartney
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“I’m not saying we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.”
–John Lennon
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“John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.”
–Cynthia Lennon
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“There’s a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually–we drank.”
– Ringo Starr
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“Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war-for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.”
–John Lennon
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“There is one thing I used to regret and feel guilty about. When Ringo joined us I used to act all big time with him because I’d been in the business a bit longer and felt superior. I was a know-all. I’d been in the sixth form and thought I’d read a bit, you know. I began putting him off me, and me off me.”
–Paul McCartney
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