"I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me."
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"Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need."
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"I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control"
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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."
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"The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life."
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"You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it."
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"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world."
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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me."
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"Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned."
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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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"Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll."
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"We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right."
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"That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots."
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"Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what."
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"I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul."
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"I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em."
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"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity."
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"Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it."
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"I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak."
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"Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do."
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