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People Always Got The Image I Was An Anti-christ Or Antireligion. I'm Not. I'm A Most Religious Fellow. I Was Brought Up A Christian And I Only Now Understand Some Of The Things That Christ Was Saying In Those Parables. Because People Got Hooked On The Teacher And Missed The Message. All This Bit About Electing A President. We Pick Our Own Daddy Out Of A Dog Pound Of Daddies.

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People Always Got The

John Lennon

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People Always Got The Image I Was An Anti-christ Or Antireligion. I'm Not. I'm A Most Religious Fellow. I Was Brought Up A Christian And I Only Now Understand Some Of The Things That Christ Was Saying In Those Parables. Because People Got Hooked On The Teacher And Missed The Message. All This Bit About Electing A President. We Pick Our Own Daddy Out Of A Dog Pound Of Daddies.

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Only By Trying On Other People's Clothes Do We Find What Size We Are.

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

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Avant-garde Is French For Bullshit

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I Don't Expect You To Understand After You've Caused So Much Pain, But Then Again-you're Not To Blame; You're Just Human-a Victim Of The Insane.

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I Believe That God Is Like A Powerhouse, Like Where You Keep Electricity, Like A Power Station. And That He's A Supreme Power, And That He's Neither Good Not Bad, Left, Right, Black Or White. He Just Is. And We Tap That Source Of Power And Make Of It What We Will. Just As Electricity Can Kill People In A Chair, Or You Can Light A Room With It. I Think God Is.

I Was Feeling Insecure You Might Not Love Me Anymore

Carrying The Beatles' Or The Sixties' Dream Around All Your Life Is Like Carrying The Second World War And Glenn Miller Around. That's Not To Say You Can't Enjoy Glenn Miller Or The Beatles, But To Live In That Dream Is The Twilight Zone. It's Not Living Now. It's An Illusion.

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The Idea Of Being A Rock And Roll Musician Sort Of Suited My Talents And Mentality. The Freedom Was Great, But Then I Found Out I Wasn't Free. I'd Got Boxed In...the Whole Beatle Thing Is Just Beyond Comprehension ... Subconsciously I Was Crying For Help.

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Brotherhood Of Man

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The Writing Of The Beatles, Or John And Paul's Contribution To The Beatles In The Late Sixties - Had A Kind Of Depth To It, A More Mature, More Intellectual Approach. We Were Different People, We Were Older. We Knew Each Other In All Kinds Of Different Ways Than When We Wrote Together As Teenagers And In Our Older Twenties.

When Real Music Comes To Me - The Music Of The Spheres, The Music That Surpasses Understanding - That Has Nothing To Do With Me, Cause I'm Just The Channel. The Only Joy For Me Is For It To Be Given To Me, And To Transcribe It Like A Medium... Those Moments Are What I Live For.

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Instant Karma's Gonna Get You, Gonna Knock You Right On The Head

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The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within You.

Christ Consciousness

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

The Magic Of The Music Seems To Light The Way.

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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Your Inside Is Out And Your Outside Is In.

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Most Of The Songs Came From Europe And Africa And Now They Were Coming Back To Us. Many Of [bob] Dylan's Best Songs Came From Scotland, Ireland Or England. It Was A Sort Of Cultural Exchange.

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Sitting In An English Garden Waiting For The Sun If The Sun Don't Come You Get A Tan From Standing In The English Rain.

Guilt For Being Rich, And Guilt Thinking That Perhaps Love And Peace Isn't Enough And You Have To Go And Get Shot Or Something.

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We're Crazy About This City. Los Angeles? That's Just A Big Parking Lot Where You Buy A Hamburger For The Trip To San Francisco.

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You Can't Cheat Kids. If You Cheat Them When They're Children They'll Make You Pay When They're Sixteen Or Seventeen By Revolting Against You Or Hating You Or All Those So-called Teenage Problems. I Think That's Finally When They're Old Enough To Stand Up To You And Say, 'what A Hypocrite You've Been All This Time. You've Never Given Me What I Really Wanted, Which Is You.

I'm An Elvis Fan Because It Was Elvis Who Really Got Me Out Of Liverpool.

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I'm Not Going To Sacrifice Love, Real Love, For Any *%@$n' War Or Any Friend, Or Any Business, Because In The End You're Alone At Night.

Try To See It My Way, Only Time Will Tell If I Am Right Or I Am Wrong. While You See It Your Way, There's A Chance That We Might Fall Apart Before Too Long. We Can Work It Out. W E Can Work It Out.

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

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Laurel And Hardy. That's John And Yoko, And We Stand A Better Chance Under That Guise, Because All The Serious People, Like Martin Luther King, And Kennedy, And Gandhi, Got Shot.

Nothing Will Stop Me, And Whether I'm Here Or Wherever I May Be, I'll Always Have The Same Feelings, I'll Say What I Feel.

I Didn't Leave The Beatles. The Beatles Have Left The Beatles, But No One Wants To Be The One To Say The Party's Over.

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.

Life Is What Happens When We Are Busy Doing Other Things. Peace Is Not Something You Wish For; It's Something You Make, Something You Do, Something You Are And Something You Give Away.

Coping Mechanisms

Everyone Deserves To Believe They Are Beautiful.

I Just Sat All Night Looking At Him, Saying, 'wow, It's Incredible.' When Yoko Woke Up, I Told Her, 'he's Fine,' And We Cried.

Father, You Left Me, But I Never Left You.

I Wasn't Saying Whatever They're Saying I Was Saying. I'm Sorry I Said It Really. I Never Meant It To Be A Lousy Anti-religious Thing. I Apologize If That Will Make You Happy. I Still Don't Know Quite What I've Done. I've Tried To Tell You What I Did Do But If You Want Me To Apologize, If That Will Make You Happy, Then Ok, I'm Sorry.

No Short-haired, Yellow-bellied, Son Of Tricky Dicky Is Gonna Mother Hubbard Soft Soap Me With Just A Pocketful Of Soap.

Rituals Are Important. Nowadays It's Hip Not To Be Married. I'm Not Interested In Being Hip.

Declare It. Just The Same Way We Declare War. That Is How We Will Have Peace... We Just Need To Declare It.

Come Together, Right Now.

Peace In Your Mind, Peace On Earth, Peace At Work, Peace At Home, Peace In The World.

Don't You Think That The Beatles Gave Every Sodden Thing They've Got To Be The Beatles? That Took A Whole Section Of Our Youth - That Whole Period - When Everybody Else Was Just Goofin' Off We Were Workin' 24 Hours A Day!

Don't Underestimate The Importance Of Happiness. As Long As You're Happy, Who Cares What You Do?

I Only Ever Asked Two People To Work With Me As A Partner. One Was Paul Mccartney And The Other Yoko Ono. Paul And Me Were The Beatles.

Instant Karma Is Going To Get You.

The Greatest Artists Always Come Round To Simplicity.

It's No Good Having, Being With People You Can Dominate All The Time. Or Being With Someone Who Can Dominate You All The Time. Because Either One Is Boring.

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

Everybody Loves You When You're Six Foot In The Ground.

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Make Your Own Dream .i Can't Wake You Up. You Can Wake You Up. I Can't Cure You. You Can Cure You.

I Am A Violent Man Who Has Learned Not To Be Violent And Regrets His Violence.

Love Is A Promise, Love Is A Souvenir, Once Given Never Forgotten, Never Let It Disappear.

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If You Want To Get Peace, You Can Get It As Soon As You Like If We All Pull Together. ... Think Peace, Live Peace, And Breathe Peace And You'll Get It As Soon As You Like.

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.

Life Doesn't Imitate Art...it Is Art!

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Love Is Real, Real Is Love.

Everything Is As Important As Everything Else.

Meanings Of All Songs Come After They Are Recorded. Someone Else Has To Interpret Them

Love, Love, Love. All You Need Is Love. Love Is All You Need.

I'm Not Afraid Of Death Because I Don't Believe In It. It's Just Getting Out Of One Car, And Into Another

Imagine There's No Heaven, It's Easy If You Try. No Hell Below Us, Above Us Only Sky. Imagine All The People Living For Today...

Why In The World Are We Here? Surely Not To Live In Pain And Fear. Why On Earth Are You There, When You're Everywhere - Come And Get Your Share.

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

Nor Do I Think We Came From Monkeys, By The Waythat's Another Piece Of Garbage. What The Hell's It Based On? We Couldn't've Come From Anything-fish, Maybe, But Not Monkeys. I Don't Believe In The Evolution Of Fish To Monkeys To Men. Why Aren't Monkeys Changing Into Men Now? It's Absolute Garbage. It's Absolutely Irrational Garbage, As Mad As The Ones Who Believe The World Was Made Only Four Thousand Years Ago, The Fundamentalists.

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