Pete Best Quotes

• I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

  Pete Best

  Has Beens

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• We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

  Pete Best

  World, Saws, Halls

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• Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

  Pete Best

  People, Musician, Towns

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• The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

  Pete Best

  Firsts, Mets

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• I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

  Pete Best

  Daughter, Two, Wife

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• John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

  Pete Best

  Couple, Beer, Down And

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• Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

  Pete Best

  America, Band, Stuff

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• When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

  Pete Best

  Years, Odd, Spending

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