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My Life With The Beatles Had Become A Trap... I Always Remember To Thank Jesus For The End Of My Touring Days; If I Hadn't Said That The Beatles Were 'bigger Than Jesus' And Upset The Very Christian Ku Klux Klan, Well, Lord, I Might Still Be Up There With All The Other Performing Fleas! God Bless America. Thank You, Jesus.

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My Life With The Beatles Had Become A Trap... I Always Remember To Thank Jesus For The End Of My Touring Days; If I Hadn't Said That The Beatles Were 'bigger Than Jesus' And Upset The Very Christian Ku Klux Klan, Well, Lord, I Might Still Be Up There With All The Other Performing Fleas! God Bless America. Thank You, Jesus.

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The World Went Mad And Used Us As An Excuse.

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Keep You Doped With Religion And Sex And Tv

Working Class Hero

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Always Remember This: 'a Kiss Will Never Miss, And After Many Kisses A Miss Becomes A Misses.'

I Never Listen To The Radio. If It's Bad, I Make Fun Of It, And If It's Good, I Get Jealous That I Didn't Think Of It.

Please Don’t Spoil My Day; I’m Miles Away And, After All, I’m Only Sleeping.

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The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within You.

Christ Consciousness

If I'd Lived In Roman Times, I'd Have Lived In Rome. Where Else? Today America Is The Roman Empire And New York Is Rome Itself.

I Thought I Was Painting In Sound A Picture Of Revolution - But I Made A Mistake, You Know. The Mistake Was That It Was Anti-revolution.

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Happiness Is A Warm Gun.

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Peace And Love Are Eternal.

I Am The Eggman They Are The Eggmen! I Am The Walrus!

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It Was A Choice Of Making It Or Still Eating Chicken Onstage.

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It's Weird Not To Be Weird.

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Avant-garde Is French For Bullshit

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.

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.

There's Nothing New Under The Sun. All The Roads Lead To Rome. And People Cannot Provide It For You. I Can't Wake You Up. You Can Wake You Up. I Can't Cure You. You Can Cure You.

Reporter Lady: What's That Color? John: Hm. I'd Call This A Color!

I Am Like A Chameleon, Influenced By Whatever's Going On. If Elvis Can Do It, I Can Do It. If The Everly Brothers Can Do It, Me And Paul Can. Same With Dylan.

Sarcasim Is The Lowest Form Of Humor.

I Used To Say To My Auntie, 'you Throw My Fu*kin' Poetry Out, And You'll Regret It When I'm Famous,' And She Threw The Bast*rd Stuff Out. I Never Forgave Her For Not Treating Me Like A Fu*kin' Genius Or Whatever I Was When I Was A Child.

Newspaper People Have A Habit Of Putting You In The Front Pages To Sell Their Papers, And Then After They've Sold Their Papers And Got Big Circulations, They Say, 'look At What We've Done For You

It Seems That All Revolutions End Up With A Personality Cult - Even The Chinese Seem To Need A Father-figure.

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

There Is Not One Thing That's Beatle Music. How Can They Talk About It Like That? What Is Beatle Music? Walrus Or Penny Lane? Which? It's Too Diverse: I Want To Hold Your Hand Or Revolution Number Nine?

Either I'm A Genius Or I'm Mad, Which Is It? "no," I Said, "i Can't Be Mad Because Nobody's Put Me Away; Therefore I'm A Genius." Genius Is A Form Of Madness And We're All That Way. But I Used To Be Coy About It, Like Me Guitar Playing. But If There's Such A Thing As Genius - I Am One. And If There Isn't, I Don't Care.

Yoko [ono] Was Well Into Liberation Before I Met Her. She'd Had To Fight Her Way Through A Man's World - The Art World Is Completely Dominated By Men - So She Was Full Of Revolutionary Zeal When We Met.

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

Life Is Very Short, And There's No Time For Fussing And Fighting My Friends

The Postman Wants An Autograph. The Cab Driver Wants A Picture. The Waitress Wants A Handshake. Everyone Wants A Piece Of You.

Songwriting Is Like ... Being Possessed. You Try To Go To Sleep But The Song Won't Let You.

I Wouldn't Say I Was A Born Writer; I'm A Born Thinker.

My Teacher Asked Me What I Want To Be When I Grow Up, I Said Happy. She Told Me I Don't Understand The Assignment, I Told Her She Doesn't Understand Life.

I Don't Purchase Records. I Do Enjoy Listening To Things Like Japanese Folk Music Or Indian Music.

It Looks Like I'm Going To Be 40 And Life Begins At 40 - So They Promise. And I Believe It, Too.

The Beatles Had Gone Beyond Comprehension. We Were Smoking Marijuana For Breakfast. We Were Well Into Marijuana And Nobody Could Communicate With Us, Because We Were Just Glazed Eyes, Giggling All The Time.

The Basic Thing Nobody Asks Is Why Do People Take Drugs Of Any Sort? Why Do We Have These Accessories To Normal Living To Live? I Mean, Is There Something Wrong With Society That's Making Us So Pressurized, That We Cannot Live Without Guarding Ourselves Against It?

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