Quotes by Astrid Kirchherr - Page 1

I'm a very, very silly girl.
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Silly
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I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.
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Photograph
Hardly
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I love Liverpool and it is great to be back in the city.
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Liverpool
Love Great City
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For me, they are still my dear friends, not the Beatles.
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Dear
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It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.
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Portrait
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When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.
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Having Fun
Stuart
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After Stu, I liked John and George. Then I like Pete Best. Paul I found hard to get close to.
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Paul
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I was wanting something new, and for me the Beatles were... outstanding. I was breathless, speechless.
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Breathless
Outstanding
Something New
Speechless
Me New Something
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I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.
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Gifted
Deserved
Stuart
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I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.
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Prove
Businesswoman
Photographs
Looked
Negatives
Took
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From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.
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Liverpool
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Our post-war generation were struggling to escape the past and the burden of guilt we carried and to find a new way.
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Burden
Guilt
Post War
Carried
Escape
Generation
New Way
Struggling
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I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.
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Photographs
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The most important thing I gave the Beatles was my friendship. They trusted me: there was no fear in being photographed.
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Friendship
No Fear
Trusted
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Photographed
The Most Important
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I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.
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Joy
Anybody
Asked
Cared
Gave
Negatives
Pictures
Taking
Whenever
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Black and white means photography to me. It's much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.
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Black And White
Photograph
Good Me Black
Good Black And White Black
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I have never met a man who I could still say, 'That is the love of my life.' Stuart is. I never met anybody as full of love and giving as this young man.
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Life Love Man
Stuart
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I didn't take that many pictures of The Beatles, but I did photograph them before anybody else knew about them, and that makes me proud. I saw something in them.
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Photograph
Anybody Else
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I was initially attracted to John when I first went to see them play. Then I got to know Stuart because he was John's best friend. Our hearts took over from there.
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Best Friend
Attracted
Hearts
Initially
Stuart
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And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.
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Closer
Influenced
Jean
Sartre
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Well, the first time I met The Beatles was through my former boyfriend, Klaus Voormann, who saw them one night when he was wandering around Hamburg and then he heard this beautiful sound of rock 'n' roll music.
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Boyfriend
Former
Time Music Beautiful
Wandering
Hamburg
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John's legacy? His bravery. When he had the power, he used it. He really wanted peace on Earth, and John's lyrics, well, that's the brave poetry of the '60s. If he had stayed with us, he could have done so much more.
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Brave
Bravery
Legacy
Stayed
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We knew of Sartre and we dressed like the French existentialists. Our philosophy then, and remember we were only little kids, was more in following their looks than their thoughts. We were going around looking moody.
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Moody
Dressed
Little Kids
Sartre
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For me, the music of the Beatles then was serious and very, very serious art. So I couldn't take a picture of John laughing his head off or pulling funny faces because he was a serious artist, even when he was only 20.
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Faces
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You expressed yourself by looking different from other people. We even looked different from each other. But among the Exis, there was a close group of us, Klaus Voormann, Jurgen Wollmer and me. Klaus and I always wore black.
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Always Yourself Me
Expressed
Wore
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I was always introduced as the Beatles photographer and I gave it up in the end. I was so unsure of myself. Am I good or am I just the Beatles photographer? People were not interested in what I did before. I could not stand it any more.
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Not Interested
Unsure
Good Myself People
In The End
Introduced
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You couldn't buy any English authors or anything that came from America, like jeans. It was impossible. So we had to do our own clothes if we had weird ideas like wearing long scarves like the French people did. You had to knit them yourself.
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Jeans
Authors
French People
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They were actually pills to make slimming easier for you. We used to take them with a couple of beers. They made you just a little speedy. But you can't compare it to speed from today or cocaine or anything. It's just baby food compared to that.
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Baby
Beer
Couple
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When I met the Beatles, they were wearing these funny little leather jackets, which inspired me. I had a suit made for myself out of fine, good black leather. It looked different. I was using leather but putting a different fashion angle on how it looked.
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Angle
Jackets
Leather
Funny Good Myself
Suit
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Stuart was a very special person and he was miles ahead of everybody. You know as far as intelligent and artistic feelings are concerned, he was miles ahead. So I learned a lot from him and because in the '60s we had a very strange attitude towards being young, towards sex, towards everything.
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Intelligent
Miles
Special Person
Stuart
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All my friends in art school used to run around with this sort of what you call Beatles haircut. And my boyfriend then, Klaus Voormann, had this hairstyle, and Stuart liked it very, very much. He was the first one who really got the nerve to get the Brylcreem out of his hair and asking me to cut his hair for him.
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Boyfriend
Art School
All My Friends
First One
Haircut
Nerve
Stuart
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