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Mostly Folk Music Is People With Fruity Voices Trying To Keep Alive Something Old And Dead. It's All A Bit Boring, Like Ballet: A Minority Thing Kept Going By A Minority Group.

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Mostly Folk Music Is

John Lennon

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Mostly Folk Music Is People With Fruity Voices Trying To Keep Alive Something Old And Dead. It's All A Bit Boring, Like Ballet: A Minority Thing Kept Going By A Minority Group.

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Trying To Please Everybody Is Impossible - If You Did That, You'd End Up In The Middle With Nobody Liking You. You've Just Got To Make The Decision About What You Think Is Your Best, And Do It.

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If You Tried To Give Rock And Roll Another Name, You Might Call It 'chuck Berry'.

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Everybody's Talking About Ministers, Sinisters, Banisters, And Canisters, Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis, And Popeyes, Bye-bye, Bye-byes.

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I'll Give You Everything I've Got For A Little Peace Of Mind

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I Believe In Everything Until It's Disproved. So I Believe In Fairies, The Myths, Dragons. It All Exists, Even If It's In Your Mind. Who's To Say That Dreams And Nightmares Aren't As Real As The Here And Now?

Love Is The Answer, And You Know That For Sure; Love Is A Flower, You've Got To Let It Grow.

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

Link Wray And Gene Vincent.... Two Of The Greatest Unknowns Of Rock 'n' Roll.

We Never Write Anything With Themes. We Just Write The Same Rubbish All The Time.

Music Is Everybody's Possession. It's Only Publishers Who Think That People Own It.

You're Just Left With Yourself All The Time, Whatever You Do Anyway. You've Got To Get Down To Your Own God In Your Own Temple. It's All Down To You, Mate.

I Don't Believe In Elvis I Don't Believe In Zimmerman I Don't Believe In Beatles I Just Believe In Me.

Nobody's Ever Tried The Peace Thing, ... We Are Selling It Like Soap.

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

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

I'll Be A Good Boy, Please Make Me Well. I Promise You Anything, Get Me Out Of This Hell. Cold Turkey Has Got Me On The Run.

The Trouble With Government As It Is, Is That It Doesn't Represent The People. It Controls Them.

We Went To America A Few Times And [brian] Epstein Always Tried To Waffle On At Us About Saying Nothing About Vietnam. So There Came A Time When George [harrison] And I Said 'listen, When They Ask Next Time, We're Going To Say We Don't Like That War And We Think They Should Get Right Out.' That's What We Did.

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

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In Baby You're A Rich Man The Point Was, Stop Moaning, You're A Rich Man And We're All Rich, Heh Heh, Baby!

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

It's Just Natural, It's Not A Great Disaster. People Keep Talking About It Like It's The End Of The Earth. It's Only A Rock Group That Split Up, It's Nothing Important. You Know, You Have All The Old Records There If You Want To Reminisce.

We Announce The Birth Of A Conceptual Country, Newtopia. Citizenship Of The Country Can Be Obtained By Declaration Of Your Awareness Of Newtopia. Newtopia Has No Land, No Boundaries, No Passports, Only People. Newtopia Has No Laws Other Than Cosmic. All People Of Newtopia Are Ambassadors Of The Country. As Two Ambassadors Of Newtopia, We Ask For Diplomatic Immunity And Recognition In The United Nations Of Our Country And Our People.

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