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In Paris In 1964 Was The First Time I Ever Heard Dylan At All. Paul Got The Record (the Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) From A French Dj. For Three Weeks In Paris We Didn't Stop Playing It. We All Went Potty About Dylan.

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In Paris In 1964

John Lennon

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In Paris In 1964 Was The First Time I Ever Heard Dylan At All. Paul Got The Record (the Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) From A French Dj. For Three Weeks In Paris We Didn't Stop Playing It. We All Went Potty About Dylan.

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Well, I Just Want Him To Grow Up Happy. That's The Main Thing.

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You Won't Get Anything Unless You Have The Vision To Imagine It.

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There Are No Problems, Only Solutions.

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The More I See The Less I Know For Sure.

You Don't Need Anybody To Tell You Who You Are Or What You Are. You Are What You Are!

And So This Is Christmas...what Have You Done?

Imagine No Possesions, I Wonder If You Can, No Need For Greed Or Hunger, A Brotherhood Of Man. Imagine All The People Sharing All The World.

Brotherhood Of Man

You Feel Alone If You're The Only One Thinking 'wouldn't It Be Nice If There Was Peace And Nobody Was Getting Killed.' So Advertise Yourself That You're For Peace If You Believe In It.

When Yoko [ono] And I Got Married, We Got Terrible Racialist Letters - You Know, Warning Me That She Would Slit My Throat. Those Mainly Came From Army People Living In Aldershot. Officers.

Love Means Having To Say You're Sorry Every Fifteen Minutes.

Happiness Is A Good Vibe For Peace.

He Laid It On George, Me And Our Wives Without Telling Us At A Dinner Party At His House. He Was A Friend Of George's, And Our Dentist At The Time. He Just Put It In Our Coffee Or Something. He Didn't Know What It Was, It Was Just, 'it's All The Thing,' With The Middle-class London Swingers. They Had All Heard About It And Didn't Know It Was Different From Pot Or Pills. And They Gave It To Us, And He Was Saying, 'i Advise You Not To Leave,' And We Thought He Was Trying To Keep Us For An Orgy In His House And We Didn't Want To Know.

Happiness Is Inside You, Not With Another Person

I'm Cynical About Society, Politics, Newspapers, Government. But I'm Not Cynical About Life, Love, Goodness, Death. That's Why I Really Don't Want To Be Labeled A Cynic.

There's Nothing You Can Do That Can't Be Done.

Imagine ... Imagine No Religion.

I'd Always Felt Repressed. We Were All So Pressurised That There Was Hardly Any Chance Of Expressing Ourselves, Especially Working At That Rate, Touring Continually And Always Kept In A Cocoon Of Myths And Dreams.

"i've Always Thought There Was This Underlying Thing In Paul's "get Back." When We Were In The Studio Recording It, Every Time He Sang The Line "get Back To Where You Once Belonged," He'd Look At Yoko."

You Can Only Breathe Out If You Breathe In.

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I Felt An Obligation Even Then To Write A Song That People Would Sing In The Pub Or On A Demonstration. That Is Why I Would Like To Compose Songs For The Revolution.

Evolution And All Hopes For A Better World Rest In The Fearlessness And Open-hearted Vision Of People Who Embrace Life.

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Music Is Everybody's Possession. It's Only Publishers Who Think That People Own It. If You Were Going To Give Rock 'n' Roll Another Name You Might As Well Call It Chuck Berry. We're More Popular Than Jesus Now; I Don't Know Which Will Go First - Rock And Roll Or Christianity.

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When They've Tortured And Scared You For 20 Odd Years, Then They Expect You To Pick A Career.

When I Hold You In My Arms And I Feel My Finger On Your Trigger I Know No One Can Do Me No Harm Because Happiness Is A Warm Gun.

If The Masses Started To Accept Ufos, It Would Profoundly Affect Their Attitude Towards Life, Politics, Everything. It Would Threaten The Status Quo. Whenever People Come To Realize That There Are Larger Considerations Than Their Own Petty Lives, They Are Ripe To Make Radical Changes On A Personal Level, Which Would Eventually Lead To A Political Revolution In Society As A Whole

Political Revolution

Before Cliff (richard) And The Shadows, There Had Been Nothing Worth Listening To In British Music.

The Greatest Artists Always Come Round To Simplicity.

I Don't Have Any Romanticism About Any Part Of My Past. I Think Of It Only Inasmuch As It Gave Me Pleasure Or Helped Me Grow Psychologically. That Is The Only Thing That Interests Me About Yesterday. I Don't Believe In Yesterday, By The Way. You Know I Don't Believe In Yesterday. I Am Only Interested In What I Am Doing Now.

You Can Go To Church And Sing A Hymn, Judge Me By The Colour Of My Skin, You Can Live A Lie Until You Die, One Thing You Can't Hide Is When You're Crippled Inside.

A Dream You Dream Alone Is Only A Dream.

High School Graduation

I Love My Husband

All You Need Is Love.

All Kids Draw And Write Poetry And Everything, And Some Of Us Last Until We're About Eighteen, But Most Drop Off At About Twelve When Some Guy Comes Up And Says, "you're No Good." That's All We Get Told All Our Lives. "you Haven't Got The Ability. You're A Cobbler." It Happened To All Of Us, But If Somebody Had Told Me All My Life, "yeah, You're A Great Artist," I Would Have Been A More Secure Person.

From This Moment On I Know Exactly Where My Life Will Go: Seems That All I Really Was Doing Was Waiting For Love.

I'm Not Really A Career Person; I'm A Gardener, Basically.

If People Take Any Notice Of What We Say, We Say We've Been Through The Drug Scene, Man, And There's Nothing Like Being Straight.

When I Was 5 Years Old, My Mother Always Told Me That Happiness Was The Key To Life.

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