Background Image

...

The Main Hangup In The World Today Is Hypocrisy And Insecurity. If People Can't Face Up To The Fact Of Other People Being Naked Or Smoking Pot, Or Whatever They Want To Do, Then We're Never Going To Get Anywhere. People Have Got To Become Aware That It's None Of Their Business And That Being Nude Is Not Obscene. Being Ourselves Is What's Important. If Everyone Practiced Being Themselves Instead Of Pretending To Be What They Aren't, There Would Be Peace.

-John Lennon

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

The Main Hangup In

John Lennon

...

The Main Hangup In The World Today Is Hypocrisy And Insecurity. If People Can't Face Up To The Fact Of Other People Being Naked Or Smoking Pot, Or Whatever They Want To Do, Then We're Never Going To Get Anywhere. People Have Got To Become Aware That It's None Of Their Business And That Being Nude Is Not Obscene. Being Ourselves Is What's Important. If Everyone Practiced Being Themselves Instead Of Pretending To Be What They Aren't, There Would Be Peace.

Views: 7

Topic

More From John Lennon

Don't Believe That Jazz About There's Nothing You Can Do, "turn On And Drop Out, Man" - Because You've Got To Turn On And Drop In, Or They're Going To Drop All Over You.

I Keep On Reading The Morning Star Newspaper To See If There's Any Hope, But It Seems To Be In The 19th Century; It Seems To Be Written For Dropped-out, Middle-aged Liberals.

There's Nothing You Can Do That Can't Be Done Nothing You Can Sing That Can't Be Sung. Nothing You Can Say But You Can Learn How To Play The Game. It's Easy. Nothing You Can Make That Can't Be Made. No One You Can Save That Can't Be Saved. Nothing You Can Do But You Can Learn How To Be You In Time. It's Easy. Nothing You Can Know That Isn't Known. Nothing You Can See That Isn't Shown. Nowhere You Can Be That Isn't Where You're Meant To Be. It's Easy.

Everything Is As Important As Everything Else.

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.

I'd Never Met A Woman I Considered As Intelligent As Me. That Sounds Bigheaded, But Every Woman I Met Was Either A Dolly-chick, Or A Sort Of Screwed-up Intellectual Chick. And Of Course, In The Field I Was In, I Didn't Meet Many Intellectual People Anyway. I Always Had This Dream Of Meeting An Artist, An Artist Girl Who Would Be Like Me. And I Thought It Was A Myth, But Then I Met Yoko And That Was It.

I'd Like To Incite People To Break The Framework, To Be Disobedient In School, To Stick Their Tongues Out, To Keep Insulting Authority.

We Are All Christ And Hitler. Yoko And I Want Christ To Win.

If Being An Egomaniac Means I Believe In What I Do And In My Art Or Music, Then In That Respect You Can Call Me That... I Believe In What I Do, And I'll Say It.

I've Always Been Politically Minded And Against The Status Quo. It's Pretty Basic When You're Brought Up, Like I Was, To Hate And Fear The Police As A Natural Enemy And To Despise The Army As Something That Takes Everybody Away And Leaves Them Dead Somewhere.

Everything They Told Me As A Kid Has Already Been Disproved By The Same Type Of “experts” Who Made Them Up In The First Place.

It Depends Who They Are. If It's Mick (jagger) Or The Old Guard As I Call Them, Yeah, They're The Old Guard. Elton (john), David (bowie) Are The Newies. I Don't Feel Like An Old Uncle, Dear, 'cause I'm Not That Much Older Than Half Of 'em, Hehe.

You Are Not Your Emotions,you Have Emotions,and You Can Master Them.

Before Elvis There Was Nothing.

The Whole Thing Died In My Mind Long Before The Rumpus Started. We Used To Believe The Beatles Myth Just As Much As The Public And We Were In Love With Them Just The Same Way. But We Were Four Individuals Who Eventually Recovered Our Individualities After Being Submerged In A Myth.

I Used To Be Cruel To My Woman, And Physically - Any Woman. I Was A Hitter. I Couldn't Express Myself And I Hit. I Fought Men And I Hit Women. That Is Why I Am Always On About Peace, You See. It Is The Most Violent People Who Go For Love And Peace. Everything's The Opposite. But I Sincerely Believe In Love And Peace. I Am A Violent Man Who Has Learned Not To Be Violent And Regrets His Violence. I Will Have To Be A Lot Older Before I Can Face In Public How I Treated Women As A Youngster.

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.

Strawberry Fields Is Anywhere You Want To Go

In One Way, I Was Always Hip. I Was Hip In Kindergarten. I Was Different From The Others. There Was Something Wrong With Me, I Thought, Because I Seemed To See Things People Didn't See. I Always Saw Things In A Hallucinatory Way.

Being Different

If We Took Over Britain, Then We'd Have The Job Of Cleaning Up The Bourgeoisie And Keeping People In A Revolutionary State Of Mind.

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

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.

I Believe In What I Do, And I'll Say It.

The Women Are Very Important Too, We Can't Have A Revolution That Doesn't Involve And Liberate Women. It's So Subtle The Way You're Taught Male Superiority.

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

And God Help Bruce Springsteen When They Decide He's No Longer God... They'll Turn On Him, And I Hope He Survives It.

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.

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

Happiness Is A Warm Gun.

I Think It's False, Shallow, To Be Giving To Others When Your Own Need Is Great. The Idea Is Not To Comfort People, Not To Make Them Feel Better But To Make Them Feel Worse, To Constantly Put Before Them The Degradations And Humiliations They Go Through To Get What They Call A Living Wage.

Happiness Is A Good Vibe For Peace.

The People Have The Power. All We Have To Do Is Awaken The Power In The People.

You Better Get Yourself Together, Darling, And Join The Human Race.

I Think The Music Reflects The State That The Society Is In. It Doesn't Suggest The State. I Think The Poets And Musicians And Artists Are Of The Age - Not Only Do They Lead The Age On, But They Also Reflect That Age. [...] Like The Beatles. We Came Out Of Liverpool And We Reflected Our Background And We Reflected Our Thoughts In What We Sang, And That's All People Are Doing.

I Learned Lots Of Dirty Jokes Very Young. There Was This Girl Who Told Me Them. The Gang I Led Went In For Shoplifting And Pulling Girls' Knickers Down. Other Boys' Parents Hated Me.

I Believe That As Soon As People Want Peace In The World They Can Have It. The Trouble Is They Are Not Aware They Can Get It.

I Want It To Sound Like An Orange.

Imagine All The People Living Life In Peace.

We're Crazy About This City. First Time We Came Here, We Walked The Streets All Day, All Over Town And Nobody Hassled Us. People Smiled, Friendly-like, And We Knew We Could Live Here. We'd Like To Keep Our Place In Greenwich Village And Have An Apartment Here, God And The Immigration Service Willing. Los Angeles? That's Just A Big Parking Lot Where You Buy A Hamburger For The Trip To San Francisco.

News Conference In Chicago, Where He Apologized For The Above Statement, Which Was Accepted By The Vatican. (11 August 1966)

As A Kid I Had A Dream - I Wanted To Own My Own Bicycle. When I Got The Bike I Must Have Been The Happiest Boy In Liverpool, Maybe The World. I Lived For That Bike. Most Kids Left Their Bike In The Backyard At Night. Not Me. I Insisted On Taking Mine Indoors And The First Night I Even Kept It In My Bed.

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

I Don't Mind People Putting Us Down, Because If Everybody Really Liked Us, It Would Be A Bore. You've Got To Have People Putting You Down. It Doesn't Give Any Edge To It If Everybody Just Falls Flat On Their Face Saying, "you're Great." We Enjoy Some Of The Criticisms As Well, They're Quite Funny; Some Of The Clever Criticisms, Not The Ones That Don't Know Anything, But Some Of The Clever Ones Are Quite Fun.

The Pressures Of Being A Parent Are Equal To Any Pressure On Earth. To Be A Conscious Parent, And Really Look To That Little Being's Mental And Physical Health, Is A Responsibility Which Most Of Us, Including Me, Avoid Most Of The Time Because It's Too Hard.

When I Was Singing About 'all You Need Is Love' I Was Talking About Something I Hadn't Experienced.

I Didn't Really Know That Much About The Maoists, But I Just Knew That They Seemed To Be So Few And Yet They Painted Themselves Green And Stood In Front Of The Police Waiting To Get Picked Off.

In 'lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' I Was Visualizing Alice In Wonderland, An Image Of This Female Who Would Come And Save Me - A Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes Who Would Be The Real Love Of My Life. Lucy Turned Out To Be Yoko.

The Idea Of Beetles Came Into My Head. I Decided To Spell It Beatles To Make It Look Like Beat Music, Just A Joke.

The Cross Of The Legion Of Honor Has Been Conferred On Me. However, Few Escape That Distinction.

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

Imagine There's No Varmints. It Isn't Hard To Do.

You Don't Have To Be A Star To Get A Cheese Sandwich. You Just Have To Be First.

Cheese Sandwiches

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

Everything Is Clearer When You're In Love.

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

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

You're Only Awake When You Realise You're Awake And When You're Dreaming, It Is Just As Real, Whatever Happens Is Just As Real - Whether You Actually Do Die In A Dream Or Fulfil Whatever You're Doing In A Dream, It's, There's Nobody To Tell Me It Isn't As Real As This Now, Because How Do You Know?

I Don't Know If I Want To Record Together Again. I Go Off And On It... In The Old Days, When We Needed An Album, Paul And I Got Together And Produced Enough Songs For It. Nowadays, There's Three Of Us Writing Prolifically And Trying To Fit It All Into One Album.

Once The New Power Has Taken Over They Have To Establish A New Status Quo Just To Keep The Factories And Trains Running.

One Thing I Can Tell You Is You Have To Be Free. Come Together, Right Now, Over Me.

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

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.

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.

Everything Will Be Okay In The End. If It's Not Okay, It's Not The End.

Jesus Was All Right, But His Disciples Were Thick And Ordinary. It's Them Twisting It That Ruins It For Me.

I Never Went To High School Reunions. My Thing Is, Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind. That's My Attitude Toward Life. So I Don't Have Any Romanticism About Any Part Of My Past.

I Don't Believe In Yesterday.

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.

Why Don't People Believe Us When We Say We're Simply In Love?

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

To Begin With, Working Class People Reacted Against Our Openness About Sex. They Are Frightened Of Nudity, They're Repressed In That Way As Well As Others. Perhaps They Thought 'paul [mccartney] Is A Good Lad, He Doesn't Make Trouble'.

It Doesn't Matter How Long My Hair Is Or What Colour My Skin Is Or Whether I'm A Woman Or A Man.

We're Mostly Macrobiotic, But Sometimes I Take The Family Out For A Pizza.

We Thought Being Offered The M.b.e. [member Of The Order Of The British Empire] Was As Funny As Everybody Else Thought It Was. Why? What For? We Didn't Believe It. It Was A Part We Didn't Want. We All Met And Agreed It Was Daft.

It's Better To Fade Away Like An Old Soldier Than To Burn Out.

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.

All We Are Saying Is Give Peace A Chance.

Imagine All The People Living Life In Peace. You May Say I'm A Dreamer, But I'm Not The Only One. I Hope Someday You'll Join Us, And The World Will Be As One.

I Remember A Time When Everybody I Loved Hated Me Because I Hated Them.

Everybody Seems To Think I'm Lazy I Don't Mind, I Think They're Crazy. Running Everywhere At Such A Speed Till They Find There's No Need.

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

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

You See, We're Influenced By Whatever's Going. Even If We're Not Influenced, We're All Going That Way At A Certain Time. If We Played A Stones Record Now - And A Beatles Record - And We've Been Way Apart, You'd Find A Lot Of Similarities. We're All Heavy. Just Heavy.

We Should Be Trying To Reach The Young Workers Because That's When You're Most Idealistic And Have Least Fear.

Rituals Are Important.

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.

As In A Love Affair, Two Creative People Can Destroy Themselves Trying To Recapture That Youthful Spirit, At Twenty-one Or Twenty-four, Of Creating Without Even Being Aware Of How It's Happening

I Began To Realise That We Are All Oppressed Which Is Why I Would Like To Do Something About It, Though I'm Not Sure Where My Place Is.

I Used To Hide My Real Emotions In Gobbledegook, Like In In His Own Write. When I Wrote Teenage Poems, I Wrote In Gobbledegook Because I Was Always Hiding My Real Emotions From Mimi.

"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."

Happiness Is Just How You Feel When You Don't Feel Miserable.

I Resent Performing For Frisking Idiots Who Don't Know Anything.

You May Say I'm A Dreamer, But I'm Not The Only One

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

Why Should The Beatles Give More? Didn't They Give Everything On God's Earth For Ten Years? Didn't They Give Themselves?

Music Touching My Soul, The Spirit Dance Was Unfolding.

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

The Artist's Role Isn't To Tell People How To Feel, But Reflect.

Being Honest May Not Get You A Lot Of Friends But It’ll Always Get You The Right Ones

You Know The Way People Begin To Look Like Their Dogs? Well, We're Beginning To Look Like Each Other.

Millions Of Mind Guerrillas, Raising The Spirit Of Peace And Love, Not War.

Love Is You, You And Me. Love Is Knowing We Can Be.

When Somebody Is Angry With Us, We Draw A Halo Around His Or Her Head, In Our Minds. Does The Person Stop Being Angry Then? Well, We Don't Know! We Know, Though, That When We Draw A Halo Around A Person, Suddenly The Person Starts To Look Like An Angel To Us.

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.

Surrealism Had A Great Effect On Me Because Then I Realised That The Imagery In My Mind Wasn't Insanity. Surrealism To Me Is Reality.

Now, In The Sixties We Were Naive, Like Children. Everybody Went Back To Their Rooms And Said 'we Didn't Get A Wonderful World Of Just Flowers And Peace And Happy Chocolate, And It Won't Be Just Pretty And Beautiful All The Time,' And Just Like Babies Everyone Went Back To Their Rooms And Sulked. 'we're Going To Stay In Our Rooms And Play Rock And Roll And Not Do Anything Else, Because The World's A Nasty Horrible Place, Because It Didn't Give Us Everything We Cried For.' Right? Crying For It Wasn't Enough.

I've Always Considered My Work One Piece And I Consider That My Work Won't Be Finished Until I Am Dead And Buried And I Hope That's A Long, Long Time.

How Can You Talk About Power To The People Unless You Realise The People Is Both Sexes.

No Longer Riding On The Merry-go-round, I Just Had To Let It Go.

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

I Regret Profoundly That I Was Not An American And Not Born In Greenwich Village. It Might Be Dying, And There Might Be A Lot Of Dirt In The Air You Breathe, But This Is Where It's Happening.

We Were Cowards When We Sacked Him.

Time You Enjoy Wasting, Was Not Wasted.

Imagine All The People Sharing All The World.

Brotherhood Of Man

Surrealism To Me Is Reality. Psychedelic Vision Is Reality To Me And Always Was.

A More Interesting Question Is Not 'why Did They Break Up?' But 'would They Have Gotten Back Together?' ... There's Always A Chance We'd Work Together Again, But I Can't See Us Touring. I Just See Us Making Records.

I Really Thought That Love Would Save Us All.

We've Got This Gift Of Love, But Love Is Like A Precious Plant. You Can't Just Accept It And Leave It In The Cupboard Or Just Think It's Going To Get On By Itself. You've Got To Keep Watering It. You've Got To Really Look After It And Nurture It.

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

We Were Always Going To Dump Him When We Found A Decent Drummer.

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

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

That's Part Of Our Policy, Is Not To Be Taken Seriously Because I Think Our Opposition, Whoever They May Be In All Their Manifest Forms, Don't Know How To Handle Humour.

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

In Western-style Communism We Would Have To Create An Almost Imaginary Workers' Image Of Themselves As The Father-figure.

Possession Isn't Nine-tenths Of The Law. It's Nine-tenths Of The Problem.

What I'd Have Liked Would Have Been The Money And The Hit Records Without The Fame.

As Someone From The Working Class I Was Always Interested In Russia And China And Everything That Related To The Working Class, Even Though I Was Playing The Capitalist Game.

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.

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.

I Thought The Original Communist Revolutionaries Coordinated Themselves A Bit Better And Didn't Go Around Shouting About It.

There Are A Lot Of People Walking Around With Long Hair Now And Some Trendy Middle Class Kids In Pretty Clothes. But Nothing Changed Except That We All Dressed Up A Bit, Leaving The Same Bastards Running Everything.

Instant Karma Is Going To Get You.

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

Paranoia Is Just A Heightened Sense Of Awareness

It's Weird Not To Be Weird.

I'm Not Claiming Divinity. I've Never Claimed Purity Of Soul. I've Never Claimed To Have The Answers To Life. I Only Put Out Songs And Answer Questions As Honestly As I Can. But I Still Believe In Peace, Love And Understanding.

God Is A Concept By Which We Measure Our Pain.

Images Of Broken Light Which Dance Before Me Like A Million Eyes They Call Me On And On Across The Universe Thoughts Meander Like A Restless Wind Inside A Letter Box They Tumble Blindly As They Make Their Way Across The Universe

I'm Dissatisfied With Every Record The Beatles Ever F***ing Made. There Ain't One Of Them I Wouldn't Remake.

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

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.

Barney Kessel Is Incredible. He's Just Amazing . . . . Nobody Can Play Guitar Like That

It Was My Fat Elvis Period. I Was Eating And Drinking Like A Pig. I Was Depressed And I Was Crying Out For Help. It's Real. And I Meant It.

Nothing Affected Me Until I Heard Elvis. Without Elvis There Would Be No Beatles.

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

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.

A Mistake Is Only An Error, It Becomes A Mistake When You Fail To Correct It

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.

I Was Stuck In The Feeling That One Did Not--was Not Justified In Being Alive Unless One Was Fulfilling Other People's Dreams, Whether They Were Contractual Dreams Or The Public's Dreams, Or Fulfilling My Own Dreams And Illusions About What I Thought I Was Supposed To Be, Which, In Retrospect, Turned Out To Not Be What I Am.

I'm Not Going To Change The Way I Look Or The Way I Feel To Conform To Anything.

I Believe That Time Wounds All Heals. (karma)

Life Is What Happens To You While You're Busy Making Other Plans.

Christianity Will Go. It Will Vanish And Shrink. I Needn't Argue With That; I'm Right And I Will Be Proved Right. We're More Popular Than Jesus Now; I Don't Know Which Will Go First - Rock And Roll Or Christianity.

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

I Love Commercial Music! I Can Dissect It And Criticize It With Any Critic In The Business. But Without Any Thought, I Just Enjoy It. It's Folk Music. That's What I'm Doing, Folk Music. I'm Not Intellectualizing It . . . And Making It Into A Phoney Art Form. I'm Just Doing The Music I Enjoy.

It Took Me Quite A Long Time To Realise That My Maleness Was Cutting Off Certain Areas For Yoko [ono]. She's A Red Hot Liberationistand Was Quick To Show Me Where I Was Going Wrong, Even Though It Seemed To Me That I Was Just Acting Naturally. That's Why I'm Always Interested To Know How People Who Claim To Be Radical Treat Women.

The Only Reason I Went For That Goal Is That I Wanted To Say: 'now, Mummy-daddy, Will You Love Me?'

Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out.

Sometimes You Wonder, I Mean Really Wonder. I Know We Make Our Own Reality, And We Always Have A Choice, But How Much Is Preordained? Is There Always A Fork In The Road, And Are There Two Preordained Paths That Are Equally Preordained? There Could Be Hundreds Of Paths Where One Could Go This Way Or That Way -- There's A Chance, And It's Very Strange Sometimes.

That's The Choice They Allow You - Now The Outlet Is Being A Pop Star, Which Is Really What I'm Saying On The Album In 'working Class Hero'. As I Told Rolling Stone, It's The Same People Who Have The Power, The Class System Didn't Change One Little Bit.

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

Wouldn't It Be Interesting To Take Elvis Back To His Sun Records Period? I Don't Know. But I'm Content To Listen To His Sun Records. I Don't Want To Dig Him Up Out Of The Grave.

The Worst Drugs Are As Bad As Anybody's Told You. It's Just A Dumb Trip, Which I Can't Condemn People If They Get Into It, Because One Gets Into It For One's Own Personal, Social, Emotional Reasons. It's Something To Be Avoided If One Can Help It.

When I Was A Child I Experienced Moments Of Not Wanting To See The Ugliness, Not Wanting To See Not Being Wanted. This Lack Of Love Went Into My Eyes And Into My Mind.

I Don't Stand Back And Judge - I Do.

Inspirational Life

If The Beatles Or The 60's Had A Message, It Was 'learn To Swim. And Once You've Learned - Swim!

Avant-garde Is French For Bullshit

Yeah We All Shine On, Like The Moon, And The Stars, And The Sun.

I've Never Voted. I've Never Voted Yet Although I Could Have Voted For The Last Ten Years.

In England, There Are Only Two Things To Be, Basically: You Are Either For The Labor Movement Or For The Capitalist Movement. Either You Become A Right-wing Archie Bunker If You Are In The Class I Am In, Or You Become An Instinctive Socialist, Which I Was.

We All Have Hitler In Us, But We Also Have Love And Peace. So Why Not Give Peace A Chance For Once?

I Can't Remember Anything Without A Sadness So Deep That It Hardly Becomes Known To Me, So Deep That Its Tears Leave Me A Spectator Of My Own Stupidity.

I Am He As You Are He As You Are Me And We Are All Together.

Greatest Beatles

I Don't Believe In Killing Whatever The Reason!

If You Want Peace, You Won't Get It With Violence.

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

Today's Folk Song Is Rock And Roll. Although It Happened To Emanate From America, That's Not Really Important In The End Because We Wrote Our Own Music And That Changed Everything.

I Think A Lot Of Bad Things Have Happened In The Name Of The Church And In The Name Of Christ. Therefore I Shy Away From Church...

There Are Two Basic Motivating Forces: Fear And Love. When We Are Afraid, We Pull Back From Life. When We Are In Love, We Open To All That Life Has To Offer With Passion, Excitement, And Acceptance. We Need To Learn To Love Ourselves First, In All Our Glory And Our Imperfections. If We Cannot Love Ourselves, We Cannot Fully Open To Our Ability To Love Others Or Our Potential To Create. Evolution And All Hopes For A Better World Rest In The Fearlessness And Open-hearted Vision Of People Who Embrace Life.

Get Back To Where You Once Belonged.

It Made Me High. It Really Did.

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!

The Main Hangup In The World Today Is Hypocrisy And Insecurity. If People Can't Face Up To The Fact Of Other People Being Naked Or Smoking Pot, Or Whatever They Want To Do, Then We're Never Going To Get Anywhere. People Have Got To Become Aware That It's None Of Their Business And That Being Nude Is Not Obscene. Being Ourselves Is What's Important. If Everyone Practiced Being Themselves Instead Of Pretending To Be What They Aren't, There Would Be Peace.

From Our Earliest Days In Liverpool, George And I On The One Hand And Paul On The Other Had Different Musical Tastes. Paul Preferred 'pop Type' Music And We Preferred What Is Now Called 'underground'. This May Have Led To Arguments, Particularly Between Paul And George, But The Contrast In Tastes, I'm Sure, Did More Good Than Harm, Musically Speaking, And Contributed To Our Success.

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

If You're An Unknown Artist You're Lucky To Get An Hour In A Studio - It's A Hierarchy And If You Don't Have Hits, You Don't Get Recorded Again.

When I Cannot Sing My Heart, I Can Only Speak My Mind.

It's Alright All Of Us All Living Saying 'oh Well There's Enough Of Us So We Won't Have Anymore, Don't Let Anybody Else Live.' I Don't Believe In That.

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.

The Reason Why Kids Are Crazy Is Because Nobody Can Face The Responsibility Of Bringing Them Up.

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.

I've Been Baking Bread And Looking After The Baby...everyone Else Who Has Asked Me That Question Over The Last Few Years Says. 'but What Else Have You Been Doing?' To Which I Say, 'are You Kidding?' Because Bread And Babies, As Every Housewife Knows, Is A Full-time Job. After I Made The Loaves [of Bread,] I Felt Like I Had Conquered Something. But As I Watched The Bread Being Eaten, I Thought, Well, Jesus, Don't I Get A Gold Record Or Knighted Or Nothing?

All You Need Is Love.

We're Not Disinterested In Politics. It's Just That Politicians Are Disinteresting.

Imagine There's No Heaven... It's Easy If You Try.

Without Jimmy (james) Dean The Beatles Would Never Have Existed.

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!

I Suppose If I Had Said Television Was More Popular Than Jesus, I Would Have Gotten Away With It. I'm Sorry I Opened My Mouth. I'm Not Anti-god, Anti-christ, Or Anti-religion. I Wasn't Knocking It Or Putting It Down. I Was Just Saying It As A Fact And It's True More For England Than Here. I'm Not Saying That We're Better Or Greater, Or Comparing Us With Jesus Christ As A Person Or God As A Thing Or Whatever It Is. I Just Said What I Said And It Was Wrong. Or It Was Taken Wrong. And Now It's All This.

Trending Author

David Allan Coe

Louis De Bernieres

Category