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Look, I Wasn't Saying The Beatles Are Better Than God Or Jesus. I Said 'beatles' Because It's Easy For Me To Talk About Beatles. I Could Have Said Tv Or The Cinema, Motor Cars Or Anything Popular And I Would Have Gotten Away With It.

-John Lennon

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Look, I Wasn't Saying The Beatles Are Better Than God Or Jesus. I Said 'beatles' Because It's Easy For Me To Talk About Beatles. I Could Have Said Tv Or The Cinema, Motor Cars Or Anything Popular And I Would Have Gotten Away With It.

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A Very Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year Let's Hope It's A Good One Without Any Fear.

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What Does It Mean When A Person Is Such A Pacifist That They Get Shot? I Can Never Understand That.

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Half Of What I Say Is Meaningless, But I Say It Just To Reach You.

It ( In My Life ) Was The First Song That I Wrote That Was Really, Consciously About My Life.... Up Until Then, It Had Been All Glib And Throwaway.

I'm Not Going To Change The Way I Look Or The Way I Feel To Conform To Anything. I've Always Been A Freak. So I've Been A Freak All My Life And I Have To Live With That, You Know. I'm One Of Those People.

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Life Is What Happens To You While You're Planning On Doing Something Else.

I Was Feeling Insecure You Might Not Love Me Anymore

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I'd Spent Five Hours That Morning Trying To Write A Song That Was Meaningful And Good, And I Finally Gave Up And Lay Down. Then, "nowhere Man" Came, Words And Music, The Whole Damn Thing, As I Lay Down...song Writing Is About Getting The Demon Out Of Me. It's Like Being Possessed. You Try To Go To Sleep, But The Song Won't Let You. So You Have To Get Up And Make It Into Something, And Then You're Allowed Sleep.

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Now The Beatles Are Four Separate People, We Don't Have The Impact We Had When We Were Together.

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.

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Music's All Right John, But You'll Never Make A Living Out Of It.

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It's Amazing How Low You Go To Get High.

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I'm Really Very Embarrassed About My Guitar Playing, In One Way, Because It's Very Poor. I Can Never Move But I Can Make A Guitar Speak.

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Time You Enjoy Wasting, Was Not Wasted.

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It Matters Not Who You Love, Where You Love, Why You Love, When You Love Or How You Love, It Matters Only That You Love

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Will The People In The Cheaper Seats Clap Your Hands? And The Rest Of You, If You'll Just Rattle Your Jewelry.

Work Is Life, You Know, And Without It, There's Nothing But Fear And Insecurity.

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My Father And Mother Split And I Never Saw My Father Until I Was 20, Nor Did I See Much More Of My Mother.

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That's What The Great Masters And Mistresses Have Been Saying Ever Since Time Began. They Can Point The Way, Leave Signposts And Little Instructions In Various Books That Are Now Called Holy And Worshipped For The Cover Of The Book And Not For What It Says, But The Instructions Are All There For All To See, Have Always Been And Always Will Be.

I Don't Want To Be King, I Want To Be Real.

You Can't Give A Child Too Much Love And If You Love Somebody, You Can't Be With Them Enough. There's No Such Thing.

I Don't Believe In Yesterday, By The Way.

Without A Job All There Is To Life Is Boredom And Insecurity.

At The (record Company) Meeting Paul Just Kept Mithering On About What We Were Going To Do, So In The End I Just Said, 'i Think You're Daft. I Want A Divorce.'

We're More Popular Than Jesus Now; I Don't Know Which Will Go First, Rock 'n' Roll Or Christianity.

Man, You Should Have Seen Them Kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

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There's Nothing You Can Know That Isn't Known.

I Can't Speak For George, But I Pretty Damn Well Know We Got Fed Up Of Being Sidemen For Paul.

It Was Very Romantic. It's All In The Song, The Ballad Of John And Yoko. If You Want To Know How It Happened, It's In There. Gibraltar Was Like A Little Sunny Dream. I Couldn't Find A White Suit - I Had Sort Of Off-white Corduroy Trousers And A White Jacket. Yoko Had All White On.

It Was Like Being In The Eye Of A Hurricane. You'd Wake Up In A Concert And Think, Wow, How Did I Get Here?

It's Fear Of The Unknown. The Unknown Is What It Is. And To Be Frightened Of It Is What Sends Everybody Scurrying Around Chasing Dreams, Illusions, Wars, Peace, Love, Hate, All That-it's All Illusion. Unknown Is What It Is. Accept That It's Unknown And It's Plain Sailing. Everything Is Unknown-then You're Ahead Of The Game. That's What It Is. Right?

As I Play The Game Of Life, I Try To Make It Better Each And Every Day. And When I Struggle In The Night, The Magic Of The Music Seems To Light The Way.

You Either Get Tired Fighting For Peace, Or You Die.

Peace And Love Are Eternal.

The Best Things In Life Are Free, But You Can Keep Them For The Birds And Bees; I Want Money.

I Think Middle-class People Have The Biggest Trauma If They Have Nice Imagey Parents, All Smiling And Dolled Up.

Love Is The Flower You've Got To Let Grow.

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There's Room At The Top They Are Telling You Still, But First You Must Learn How To Smile As You Kill.

I Must Say The More Interesting Songs To Me Were The Black Ones Because They Were More Simple.

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People Asking Questions, Lost In Confusion, Well I Tell Them There's No Problem, Only Solutions.

Asking Questions

Avant-garde Is French For Bullshit

I'm Not A God Or The God, But We're All God And We're All Potentially Divine - And Potentially Evil. We All Have Everything Within Us And The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Nigh And Within Us, And If You Look Hard Enough You'll See It.

The Lyrics Stand Today (1980). They're Still My Feeling About Politics. I Want To See The Plan. I Want To Know What You're Going To Do After You've Knocked It All Down. I Mean, Can't We Use Some Of It? What's The Point Of Bombing Wall Street? If You Want To Change The System, Change The System. It's No Good Shooting People.

Pools Of Sorrow Waves Of Joy Are Drifting Thorough My Open Mind Possessing And Caressing M

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.

After The Beatles Came On The Scene Everyone Started Putting On A Liverpudlian Accent.

I Always Read The Papers, The Political Bits.

Ringo Is Ringo, That's All There Is To It. And He's Every Bloody Bit As Warm, Unassuming, Funny And Kind As He Seems. He Was Quite Simply The Heart Of The Beatles

I Believe In God, But Not As One Thing, Not As An Old Man In The Sky. I Believe That What People Call God Is Something In All Of Us. I Believe That What Jesus And Mohammed And Buddha And All The Rest Said Was Right. It's Just That The Translations Have Gone Wrong.

Paranoia Is Just A Heightened Sense Of Awareness

Love Is Real, Real Is Love, Love Is Feeling, Feeling Love, Love Is Wanting To Be Loved. Love Is Touch, Touch Is Love, Love Is Reaching, Reaching Love, Love Is Asking To Be Loved. Love Is You, You And Me, Love Is Knowing, We Can Be. Love Is Free, Free Is Love, Love Is Living, Living Love, Love Is Needing To Be Loved.

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