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It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don’t know. But I’m content to listen to his Sun Records. I don’t want to dig him up out of the grave.

Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution – but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It’s like being possessed.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

Peace and love are eternal.

Everything is as important as everything else.

Ringo is Ringo, that’s all there is to it. And he’s every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn’t see.

I don’t want to grow up but I’m sick of not growing up -? that way. I’ll find a different way of not growing up. There’s a better way of doing it than torturing your body.

Everything I’ve ever done is out. I don’t have boxes of unreleased stuff. There’s nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don’t like the sound of it or it didn’t work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone...

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that’s when you’re most idealistic and have least fear.

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.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I’d always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won’t approach them. But it’s difficult to know where to start; we’ve all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I’ve grown away from most working-class people.

Real Quotes

I always read the papers, the political bits.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn’t have the same freedom.

Fun Quotes

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don’t pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

If we took over Britain, then we’d have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

Of course it’s difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I’m not sure where my place is.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that – not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

In my case I’ve never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don’t have the impact we had when we were together.

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