{"quotes":[{"text":"None of it mattered, because there was music.","author":"Erin Entrada Kelly","tags":["guitar","middle-grade","music","the-beatles"],"id":74188,"author_id":"Erin+Entrada+Kelly"},{"text":"I liked AC/DC,' Lee said. 'If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them.'What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?'Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, 'Myself.'At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.","author":"Joe Hill","tags":["music","the-beatles"],"id":77394,"author_id":"Joe+Hill"},{"text":"When “Here Comes the Sun” started, what happened? No, the sun didn’t come out, but Mom opened up like the sun breaking through the clouds. You know how in the first few notes of that song, there’s something about George’s guitar that’s just so hopeful? It was like when Mom sang, she was full of hope, too. She even got the irregular clapping right during the guitar solo. When the song was over, she paused it.“Oh, Bee,” she said. “This song reminds me of you.” She had tears in her eyes.","author":"Maria Semple","tags":["car-rides","feels","here-comes-the-sun","mothers-and-daughters","music","song","the-beatles"],"id":79233,"author_id":"Maria+Semple"},{"text":"Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.","author":"Olivia Sudjic","tags":["humor","new-york-city","new-yorkers","observation","olivia-sudjic","people-watching","sympathy","the-beatles"],"id":105566,"author_id":"Olivia+Sudjic"},{"text":"On first impressions, John seemed more cynical and brash than the others, Ringo the most endearing, Paul was cute, and George, with velvet brown eyes and dark chestnut hair, was the best-looking man I'd ever seen. At the break for lunch I found myself sitting next to him, whether by accident or design I have never been sure. We were both shy and spoke hardly a word to each other, but being close to him was electrifying.","author":"Pattie Boyd","tags":["1960s","fashion","music","pattie-boyd","the-beatles"],"id":112007,"author_id":"Pattie+Boyd"},{"text":"If I were John LennonAnd my feelings for you grew,I'd have left The BeatlesTo spend all my time with you.","author":"Lisa Swerling","tags":["john-lennon","love","poems","romance","the-beatles"],"id":137533,"author_id":"Lisa+Swerling"},{"text":"The Beatles saved the world from boredom.","author":"George Harrison","tags":["boredom","saving-the-world","the-beatles"],"id":183858,"author_id":"George+Harrison"},{"text":"Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of 'Rosebuds' of Citizen Kane or 'Madeleine cookies' of Marcel Proust or 'Strawberry fields' of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ('Paper boats forever' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["bliss","bring-back","chaotic","childhood","citizen-kane","cookies","daily","delightful","details","fields","floating","frantic","insignificant","joy","leitmotif","life","madeleine","marcel-proust","memory-lane","mind","mood","paper-boats","retreat","rosebuds","spirit","strawberry","the-beatles","trivial","value","vital","walk-down","waves","worries","youth"],"id":209280,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Submarine' at the top of my voice in the back row of the coach on school trips. They belong to me, not to me and Laura, or me and Charlie, or me and Alison Ashworth, and though they'll make me feel something, they won't make me feel anything bad.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["love","music","relationships","the-beatles"],"id":232204,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.","author":"George Harrison","tags":["beatles","solace","solitude","the-beatles"],"id":238752,"author_id":"George+Harrison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}