The Beatles

"There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. All you need is love."

"Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out. They leave the West behind. And Moscow girls make me sing and shout. That Georgia's always on my mind. I'm back in the U.S.S.R.. You don't know how lucky you are, boys. Back in the U.S.S.R.."

"Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play. Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day. The sun is up, the sky is blue. It's beautiful and so are you."

"I told you about Strawberry Fields You know the place where nothing is real. Well here's another place you can go, Where everything flows. Looking through the bent backed tulips To see how the other half live. Looking through a glass onion."

"Happy ever after in the market place Desmond lets the children lend a hand. Molly stays at home and does her pretty face And in the evening she still sings it with the band."

"The children asked him if to kill was not a sin. "Not when he looked so fierce", his mother butted in. If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him. All the children sing... Hey, Bungalow Bill, What did you kill Bungalow Bill?"

"I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love I don't know how someone controlled you; They bought and sold you. I look at the world and I notice it's turning, While my guitar gently weeps."

"Happiness is a warm gun. Happiness is a warm gun mama. When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger, I know nobody can do me no harm. Because happiness is a warm gun mama."

"Hold your head up you silly girl look what you've done. When you find yourself in the thick of it, Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you. Silly girl."

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise."

"Have you seen the little piggies, Crawling in the dirt? And for all the little piggies, Life is getting worse. Always having dirt to play around in."

"Now the doctor came in, stinking of gin And proceeded to lie on the table. He said, 'Rocky you met your match' And Rocky said, 'Doc it's only a scratch And I'll be better, I'll be better Doc as soon as I am able.'"

"Yes I'm lonely wanna die. Yes I'm lonely wanna die. If I ain't dead already, Ooh girl you know the reason why."

"When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide, Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride. Get to the bottom and I see you again. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah."

"You say you want a revolution. Well, you know, We all want to change the world. You tell me that it's evolution. Well, you know, We all want to change the world. But when you talk about destruction, Don't you know that you can count me out in? Don't you know it's gonna be all right. All right, all right."

"It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear, Or how I fare, Or if my hair is brown. As it's only a Northern Song."

"Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles. What makes you think you're something special when you smile?"

"Some kind of innocence is measured out in years, You don't know what it's like to listen to your fears."

"He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola He say "I know you, you know me" One thing I can tell you is you got to be free. Come together right now over me."

"Got to be good looking Cause he's so hard to see."

"Something in the way she moves Attracts me like no other lover, Something in the way she woos me. I don't want to leave her now, You know I believe her now."

"Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer Came down upon her head. Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer Made sure that she was dead."

"When you told me you didn't need me anymore, Well you know I nearly broke down and cried. When you told me you didn't need me anymore, Well you know I nearly broke down and died."

"Oh what joy for every girl and boy knowing they're happy and they're safe. We would be so happy, you and me, no one there to tell us what to do, I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden with you."

"Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting, Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear. Here comes the sun, here comes the sun. It's all right, it's all right."

"You never give me your money; You only give me your funny paper. And in the middle of negotiations, You break down. I never give you my number, I only give you my situation. And in the middle of investigation, I break down."

"She came in through the bathroom window, Protected by a silver spoon. But now she sucks her thumb and wanders By the banks of her own lagoon. Didn't anybody tell her? Didn't anybody see? Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me."

"And so I quit the police department, And got myself a steady job. And though she tried her best to help me, She could steal but she could not rob."

"Once there was a way to get back homeward. Once there was a way to get back home. Sleep pretty darling do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby."

"And in the end, The love you take Is equal to the love you make."

"You and I have memories Longer than the road that stretches out ahead."

"All I want is you. Everything has got to be just like you want it to."

"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe. Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my open mind, Possessing and caressing me."

"Jai guru deva om Nothing's gonna change my world. Nothing's gonna change my world."

"Sounds of laughter, shades of earth are ringing Through my open views inviting and inciting me. Limitless undying love which shines around me like a Million suns, it calls me on and on, Across the universe."

"When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness, She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be."

"And when the broken-hearted people Living in the world agree, There will be an answer, let it be. For though they may be parted, there is Still a chance that they will see. There will be an answer, let it be."

"The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear. I've seen that road before. It always leads me here, leads me to your door."

"Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner But he knew it couldn't last. Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona Bought some California Grass. Get back, get back. Get back to where you once belonged."

"We knew that America would make us or break us as world stars. In fact, she made us."

"The Beatles are just a phenomenon; everything that the people say they are, they are. They're great. ... Their music is just melodious."

"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, "The Beatles did.""

"The Beatles were so big that it’s hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn’t a real comparison with anyone now. I suppose Michael Jackson at one point, but it still doesn’t seem quite the same. They were so big that to be competitive with them was impossible. I’m talking about in record sales and tours and all this. They were huge. They were bigger than Jesus!"

"Liverpool was a small subsidiary of the Empire. It was Podunk and people in London looked down their noses at Liverpool talent. There was no way to get from here to here to there. Without Brian [Epstein] they could have been Michelangelo but they didn’t get out. Without Brian, they were just the best band in Liverpool."

"The Beatles did not invent , the fusion of LSD and , but because of , they opened the floodgates."

"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."

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