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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.

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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.

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We're More Popular Than Jesus Christ Now.

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.

I Go To Restaurants And The Groups Always Play "yesterday." I Even Signed A Guy's Violin In Spain After He Played Us "yesterday." He Couldn't Understand That I Didn't Write The Song. But I Guess He Couldn't Have Gone From Table To Table Playing "i Am The Walrus.

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Slipping? We're Bigger Than Jesus.

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.

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

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

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.

Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed.

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

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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.

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When You Do Something Noble And Beautiful And Nobody Noticed, Do Not Be Sad. For The Sun Every Morning Is A Beautiful Spectacle And Yet Most Of The Audience Still Sleeps.

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.

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

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.

Well, I Just Want Him To Grow Up Happy. That's The Main Thing.

We're Trying To Sell Peace, Like A Product, You Know, And Sell It Like People Sell Soap Or Soft Drinks. And It's The Only Way To Get People Aware That Peace Is Possible, And It Isn't Just Inevitable To Have Violence. Not Just War - All Forms Of Violence.

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

The Greatest Artists Always Come Round To Simplicity.

If There's Anything That You Want, If There's Anything I Can Do, Just Call On Me, And I'll Send It Along With Love From Me To You.

I Know I Hurt You Then But That Was Way Back When.

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

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

We've Learned Over The Years That If We Wanted We Could Write Anything That Just Felt Good Or Sounded Good And It Didn't Necessarily Have To Have Any Particular Meaning To Us. As Odd As It Seemed To Us, Reviewers Would Take It Upon Themselves To Interject Their Own Meanings On Our Lyrics. Sometimes We Sit And Read Other People's Interpretations Of Our Lyrics And Think, 'hey, That's Pretty Good.' If We Liked It, We Would Keep Our Mouths Shut And Just Accept The Credit As If It Was What We Meant All Along.

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

God Is A Concept By Which We Measure Our Pain.

There Is No Denying That We Are Still Living In The Capitalist World. I Think That In Order To Survive And To Change The World, You Have To Take Care Of Yourself First. You Have To Survive Yourself.

And So This Is Christmas...what Have You Done?

The Sun Is Up, The Sky Is Blue It's Beautiful, And So Are You.

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 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.

Get Back To Where You Once Belonged.

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

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.

Art Is Only A Way Of Expressing Pain.

Will The People In The Cheaper Seats Clap Your Hands? And The Rest Of You, If You'll Just Rattle Your Jewelry.

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

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.

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.

I Was Trying To Say Something About Christianity, The Idea That You Have To Be Tortured To Attain Heaven. I Didn't Believe That.

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.

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.

If There Hadn't Been An Elvis, There Wouldn't Have Been The Beatles.

And So This Is Xmas For Black And For White, For Yellow And Red, Let's Stop All The Fight.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Believe In Everything Until It's Disproved.

I Want You To Make Love, Not War, I Know You've Heard It Before.

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.

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

It's Wierd Not To Be Wierd.

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

When You Wake Up And Your Heart Is Going Like The Clappers Or Your Back Feels Strained, Or You Develop Some Other Hang-up, You Should Let Your Mind Go To The Pain And The Pain Itself Will Regurgitate The Memory Which Originally Caused You To Suppress It In Your Body. In This Way The Pain Goes To The Right Channel Instead Of Being Repressed Again, As It Is If You Take A Pill Or A Bath, Saying 'well, I'll Get Over It'. Most People Channel Their Pain Into God Or Masturbation Or Some Dream Of Making It.

Instant Karma Is Going To Get You.

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

Imagine All The People Sharing All The World.

Brotherhood Of Man

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

We're All God. I'm Not A God Or The God, But We're All God And We're All Potentially Divine - And Potentially Evil.

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.

After The Beatles Came On The Scene Everyone Started Putting On A Liverpudlian Accent.

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.

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

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

Love Is Real, Real Is Love.

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?

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

There Are Two Basic Motivating Forces: Fear And Love.

If Art Were To Redeem Man, It Could Do So Only By Saving Him From The Seriousness Of Life And Restoring Him To An Unexpected Boyishness.

It's Like Being Possessed: Like A Psychic Or A Medium. I Felt Like A Hollow Temple Filled With Many Spirits, Each One Passing Through Me, Each Inhabiting Me For A Little Time And Then Leaving To Be Replaced By Another.

Everything Is Clearer When You're In Love.

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