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The Thing The Sixties Did Was To Show Us The Possibilities And The Responsibility That We All Had. It Wasn't The Answer. It Just Gave Us A Glimpse Of The Possibility.

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John Lennon

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The Thing The Sixties Did Was To Show Us The Possibilities And The Responsibility That We All Had. It Wasn't The Answer. It Just Gave Us A Glimpse Of The Possibility.

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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.

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From This Moment On I Know Exactly Where My Life Will Go: Seems That All I Really Was Doing Was Waiting For Love.

The More Reality We Face, The More We Realise That Unreality Is The Main Programme Of The Day. The More Real We Become, The More Abuse We Take, So It Does Radicalise Us In A Way, Like Being Put In A Corner. But It Would Be Better If There Were More Of Us.

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.

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.

There Are Places I'll Remember All My Life Though Some Have Changed Some Forever Not For Better Some Have Gone And Some Remain All These Places Have Their Moments With Lovers And Friends I Still Can Recall Some Are Dead And Some Are Living In My Life I've Loved Them All

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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.

I Found I Was Having Continually To Please The Sort Of People I'd Always Hated When I Was A Child. This Began To Bring Me Back To Reality.

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Love Is Needing To Be Loved.

How Can I Go Forward When I Don't Know Which Way I'm Facing?

I'm A Freakin' Artist, Man, Not A (expletive) Race Horse.

I've Always Been Politically Minded, You Know, And Against The Status Quo.

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

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The More I See The Less I Know For Sure.

I Don't Miss It. I'm Glad It Happened, But I Don't Miss It.

"all You Need Is Love." I Believe It. It's Damn Hard, But I Absolutely Believe It.

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Instant Karma Is Going To Get You.

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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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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

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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.

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The Magic Of The Music Seems To Light The Way.

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And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.

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Music Touching My Soul, The Spirit Dance Was Unfolding.

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I've Withdrawn Many Times. Part Of Me Is A Monk, And Part A Performing Flea! The Fear In The Music Business Is That You Don't Exist If You're Not At Xenon With Andy Warhol.

The Establishment Will Irritate You - Pull Your Beard, Flick Your Face - To Make You Fight. Because Once They've Got You Violent, Then They Know How To Handle You. The Only Thing They Don't Know How To Handle Is Non-violence And Humor.

It's Wierd Not To Be Wierd.

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People Are Just Up Tight Because The Kids Are Having Fun And They Didn't Have The Same Freedom.

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

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

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I Really Thought That Love Would Save Us All.

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.

Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, Misunderstanding All You See. It's Getting Hard To Be Someone But It All Works Out. It Doesn't Matter Much To Me.

All Of Us Growing Up Have Come To Terms With Too Much Pain. Although We Repress It, It's Still There. The Worst Pain Is That Of Not Being Wanted, Of Realising Your Parents Do Not Need You In The Way You Need Them.

When I Was About Twelve I Used To Think I Must Be A Genius, But Nobody's Noticed. If There Is Such A Thing As A Genius, I Am One, And If There Isn't I Don't Care.

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One Day At A Time Is All We Do. One Day At A Time Is Good For You

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I Don't Intend To Be A Performing Flea Any More. I Was The Dreamweaver, But Although I'll Be Around I Don't Intend To Be Running At 20,000 Miles An Hour Trying To Prove Myself. I Don't Want To Die At 40.

Going To America Increased The Build Up On Me, Especially As The War Was Going On There. In A Way We'd Turned Out To Be A Trojan Horse. The 'fab Four' Moved Right To The Top And Then Sang About Drugs And Sex And Then I Got Into More And More Heavy Stuff And That's When They Started Dropping Us.

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It Came In A Vision - A Man Appeared On A Flaming Pie And Said Unto Them, 'from This Day Forward You Are Beatles With An A.' Thank You Mister Man, They Said, Thanking Him.

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If I Had The Capabilities Of Being Something Other Than I Am, I Would. It's No Fun Being An Artist. You Know What It's Like, Writing, It's Torture.

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Slipping? We're Bigger Than Jesus.

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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.

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?

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

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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.

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Imagine No Possessions; I Wonder If You Can.

Sitting On A Cornflake, Waiting For The Van To Come...

You're Born In Pain And Pain Is What We're In Most Of The Time. And I Think That The Bigger The Pain, The More Gods We Need.

Part Of Me Suspects That I'm A Loser, And The Other Part Of Me Thinks I'm God Almighty.

Yoko [ono] Was Showing Me Some Of These Haiku In The Original. The Difference Between Them And Long Fellow Is Immense. Instead Of A Long Flowery Poem The Haiku Would Say 'yellow Flower In White Bowl On Wooden Table' Which Gives You The Whole Picture.

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.

I Think It's The Best Thing I've Ever Done. I Think It's Realistic, And It's True To The Me That Has Been Developing Over The Years. I Like First-person Music.

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I Don't Bother So Much About The Others' Songs. For Instance, I Don't Give A Damn About How 'something' Is Doing In The Charts - I Watch 'come Together' (the Flip Side) Because That's My Song.

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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There Is No Problem Only Solutions

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

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

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Mahatma Gandhi And Martin Luther King Are Great Examples Of Fantastic Nonviolents Who Died Violently. I Can Never Work That Out. We're Pacifists, But I'm Not Sure What It Means When You're Such A Pacifist That You Get Shot. I Can Never Understand That.

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

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

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.

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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.

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

We Were Really Professional By The Time We Got To The States; We Had Learned The Whole Game. When We Arrived Here We Knew How To Handle The Press; The British Press Were The Toughest In The World And We Could Handle Anything. We Were All Right.

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

I Was Feeling Insecure You Might Not Love Me Anymore

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.

I Had A Lot Of It In My Day, But I Don't Like It. It's A Dumb Drug. Your Whole Concentration Goes On Getting The Next Fix. I Find Caffeine Easier To Deal With.

The First Thing We Did Was To Proclaim Our Liverpoolness To The World, And Say 'it's All Right To Come From Liverpool And Talk Like This'. Before, Anybody From Liverpool Who Made It, Like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, Had To Lose Their Accent To Get On The Bbc.

The Dream Is Over. I Gotta Get Down To Reality. The Good Old Days Is Garbage.

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.

I Still Don't Know How To Express The Really Delicate Personal Stuff. People Think That Plastic Ono Is Very Personal, But There Are Some Subtleties Of Emotions Which I Cannot Seem To Express In Pop Music, And It Frustrates Me. Maybe That's Why I Still Search For Other Ways Of Expressing Myself. Song Writing Is A Limiting Experience In Some Ways - Writing Down Words That Have To Rhyme.

I Really Had A Chip On My Shoulder, ... And It Still Comes Out Every Now And Then.

When You Cross The Street, Take My Hand

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

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

Strawberry Fields Forever

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.

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.

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.

It Just Was A Gradual Development Over The Years. I Mean Last Year Was 'all You Need Is Love.' This Year, It's 'all You Need Is Love And Peace, Baby.' Give Peace A Chance, And Remember Love. The Only Hope For Us Is Peace. Violence Begets Violence. You Can Have Peace As Soon As You Like If We All Pull Together. You're All Geniuses, And You're All Beautiful. You Don't Need Anyone To Tell You Who You Are. You Are What You Are. Get Out There And Get Peace, Think Peace, And Live Peace And Breathe Peace, And You'll Get It As Soon As You Like.

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

As A Child I Did A Lot Of Imaginary Bits, You Know. It Depends On The Individual, I Enjoyed Then Knocking The Nail In, I Enjoy Knocking Nails In Walls To Hang Pictures Up, But I Also Enjoy Thinking 'i'm Gonna Do That' But I Actually Won't Do It, I Enjoy Imagining Doing Things Just As Much.

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

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There's Nothing You Can Do That Can't Be Done.

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

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.

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.

Limitless Undying Love Which Shines Around Me Like A Million Suns It Calls Me On And On Across The Universe.

We Gave Up Everything Just To Sit At Your Table.

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?

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

I Always Was A Rebel...but On The Other Hand, I Wanted To Be Loved And Accepted...and Not Just Be A Loudmouth, Lunatic, Poet, Musician. But I Cannot Be What I Am Not.

Being Different

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?

The World Went Mad And Used Us As An Excuse.

There Are Only A Few Notes. Just Variations On A Theme.

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends.

I Can't Play Guitar, But I Can Sure Make It Howl.

I'm Always Proud And Pleased When People Do My Songs. It Gives Me Pleasure That They Even Attempt Them, Because A Lot Of My Songs Aren't That Doable.

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

Imagine All Of Us Living In Peace, It's Too Beautiful To Just Be A Dream.

Creativity Is A Gift. It Doesn't Come Through If The Air Is Cluttered.

When You're Thirty-five, You Can't Take As Much Booze ... And I Always Got A Little Violent On Drink...so It Was Kind Of Self-destructive Suicide Side Of Me, Which Is Resolving Itself For The Better, I Believe, Because I Never Enjoyed It.

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.

There's Nowhere You Can Be That Isn't Where You're Meant To Be.

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.

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 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.

Nothing Happened In The Sixties Except That We All Dressed Up.

I've Never Really Been Wanted.

You Feel Alone If You're The Only One Thinking 'wouldn't It Be Nice If There Was Peace And Nobody Was Getting Killed.' So Advertise Yourself That You're For Peace If You Believe In It.

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