"John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him."
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"You guys ready to do this?"
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"I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar."
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"I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad."
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"A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one."
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"Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around."
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"Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind."
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"I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary."
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"So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there."
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"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."
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"The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold."
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"There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen."
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"I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life."
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"Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn."
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"In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward."
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"All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool."
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"I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to."
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"I thought the only lonely place was on the moon."
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"This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition."
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"When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't."
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