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       If I give my heart to you, I must be shure from the very start that you would love me more than here.

       Just to dance with you is everything I need. Before this dance is through I think I’ll love you too. I’m so happy when you dance with me.

       Don’t wanna cry when there’s people there. I get shy when they start to stare. I’m gonna hide myself away, but I’ll come back again someday.

       When you need a shoulder to cry on I hope it will be mine. Call me tonight and I’ll come to you.

       C’mon if you please, I got no time for trivialities. I got a girl who’s waiting home for me tonight.

       The people that are moaning about us not being here are people that never even came to see us when we were here. You know, we could count on our fingers the original fans we had here, and the ones that really followed us. And most of them gave up being teenagers anyway. They’re all sort of settled in and different things. The ones that are moaning probably came to see us about once, or after we’d made records.

       The rockers think we’re mods, and then the mods think we’re rockers.

       I was looking for a name like The Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because B E E T L E S didn’t mean two things, so I changed the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things, and when you read it, it was beat music.

       George and I passed through Los Angeles on our way back from a holiday in Tahiti, unannounced. And we just did a trip ‘round, because we had about four hours. So we just went ‘round to L.A. and nobody knew at all. Several people spotted us, but they thought we were fakes.

       We’re not trying to get any message across.

       Paul and I make more money out of songwriting than we do out of doing everything else. So we’ll just carry on with that, probably.

       We’re just singers, you know. Or shouters, whatever you like to call it.

       We like the Stones, you know. Dave Clark’s alright, but we prefer the Stones.

       This is! A fella described it on the radio yesterday as a typical Liverpool dockers outfit. … I got it at Key West.

       We’ll still have the money, so we’ll miss the fans. They’ll be the ones that have gone. The money will still be there.

       If I can find out which one takes the least tax, I’ll vote for them.

       Ringo’s mother is pretty hot. … Only joking, Elsie.

       Enough to get around in the Reeperbahn in Hamburg.

       We enjoy it! We always try to get a copy of these people that do our songs. The thing about the ‘Chipmunks’ and the ‘Boston...’, they do it so differently from us and from each other. It’s very interesting. And also we, Paul and I, get alot of money when they make these so it’s very good for us, you know.

       I just like cities, you see, and preferably big ones. That’s why I liked it. And we met some good people like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, you know, and I enjoy meeting people I admire.

       There’s quite a few we did with mouth organ. I played it on the early hits „Please Please Me“, „From Me To You“, „Love Me Do“, „Little Child“ from the LP, „I Should Have Known Better“ on the film, I stuck mouth organ on that.

       I don’t think there is one, you know. Not if everybody was all rich and happy, and each country had all they wanted, they’d still want the next bit. I don’t think there’ll ever be any solution – only, just, you know, a sort of power block where everybody’s got the same weapons.

       I’m so glad that she’s my little girl. She’s so glad, she’s telling all the world.

       ‚Watch Your Step’ (von Bobby Parker) is one of my favourite records. The Beatles have used the lick in various forms. The Allman Brothers used the lick straight as it was.