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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.

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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.

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New York Is What Paris Was In The Twenties. . . The Center Of The Art World. And We Want To Be In The Center. It's The Greatest Place On Earth. . . I've Got A Lot Of Friends Here And I Even Brought My Own Cash.

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Like Paul Kraston Said, All I Ask In Life Is A Water Bed, A Tv And A Typewriter. Well, I'll Just Have An Ordinary Bed, A Tv And A Guitar.

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

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

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I Don't Believe In Beatles, I Just Believe In Me.

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.

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

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I Just Said What I Said And It Was Wrong. Or It Was Taken Wrong. And Now It's All This.

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And Paul Hits This Chord, And I Turn To Him And Say, 'that's It! Do That Again!' In Those Days We Really Used To Absolutely Write Like That - Both Playing Into Each Other's Noses.

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

If Somebody Gives Me A Joint, I Might Smoke It, But I Don't Go After It.

Please Don't Wake Me, No, Don't Shake Me, Leave Me Where I Am, I'm Only Sleeping.

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

It's Wierd Not To Be Wierd.

I Wanna Hold Your Gland.

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

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There Are No Problems, Only Solutions.

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.

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.

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

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

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Control Yourself. You'll Spurt.

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Love Is Like A Flower - You Have To Let It Grow.

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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.

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

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I Don't Believe In Yesterday.

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

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

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There's Nothing You Can Know That Isn't Known.

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Art Is Only A Way Of Expressing Pain.

Somehow The Revolutionaries Must Approach The Workers Because The Workers Won't Approach Them. But It's Difficult To Know Where To Start; We've All Got A Finger In The Dam. The Problem For Me Is That As I Have Become More Real, I've Grown Away From Most Working-class People.

A Working Class Hero Is Something To Be.

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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...

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.

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

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

I Enjoyed It When Football Crowds In The Early Days Would Sing 'all Together Now' - That Was Another One. I Was Also Pleased When The Movement In America Took Up 'give Peace A Chance' Because I Had Written It With That In Mind Really.

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.

Without Jimmy Dean, The Beatles Never Would Have Existed.

"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."

Nothing Really Affected Me Until Elvis.

When I Started, Rock And Roll Itself Was The Basic Revolution To People Of My Age And Situation. We Needed Something Loud And Clear To Break Through All The Unfeeling And Repression That Had Been Coming Down On Us Kids.

It's Fear Of The Unknown. The Unknown Is What It Is. And To Be Frightened Of It Is What Sends Everybody Scurrying Around Chasing Dreams, Illusions, Wars, Peace, Love, Hate, All That-it's All Illusion. Unknown Is What It Is. Accept That It's Unknown And It's Plain Sailing. Everything Is Unknown-then You're Ahead Of The Game. That's What It Is. Right?

It Matters Not Who You Love, Where You Love, Why You Love, When You Love Or How You Love, It Matters Only That You Love

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.

There Was Something Wrong With Me, I Thought, Because I Seemed To See Things Other People Didn't See.

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.

I Like Rock & Roll, And I Don't Like Much Else.

Lots Of People Who Complained About Us Receiving The Mbe Received Theirs For Heroism In The War -for Killing People. We Received Ours For Entertaining Other People. I'd Say We Deserve Ours More.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun.

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

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.

We Were Cowards When We Sacked Him.

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.

In My Case I've Never Not Been Political, Though Religion Tended To Overshadow It In My Acid Days.

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

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.

We're More Popular Than Jesus Christ Now.

The Thing Is, In America, It Just Seemed Ridiculous - I Mean, The Idea Of Having A Hit Record Over There, ... It Was Just Something You Could Never Do.

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

There Is No Problem Only Solutions

All I Want Is The Truth, Just Give Me Some Truth

Time You Enjoy Wasting, Was Not Wasted.

Avant-garde Is French For Bullshit

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

That Radicalism (of The '70s) Was Phony, Really, Because It Was Out Of Guilt. I'd Always Felt Guilty That I Made Money, So I Had To Give It Away Or Lose It. I Don't Mean I Was A Hypocrite. When I Believe, I Believe Right Down To The Roots.

I Had To Really Kill Off All The Religious Myths. In The Therapy You Really Feel Every Painful Moment Of Your Life - It's Excruciating, You Are Forced To Realise That Your Pain, The Kind That Makes You Wake Up Afraid With Your Heart Pounding, Is Really Yours And Not The Result Of Somebody Up In The Sky. It's The Result Of Your Parents And Your Environment.

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

I Believe In Everything Until It's Disproved. So I Believe In Fairies, The Myths, Dragons. It All Exists, Even If It's In Your Mind. Who's To Say That Dreams And Nightmares Aren't As Real As The Here And Now?

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

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.

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

But For Me At Any Rate It Was All Part Of Dissolving The God Trip Or Father-figure Trip. Facing Up To Reality Instead Of Always Looking For Some Kind Of Heaven.

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

I Just Like Tv. I Think To Me, It Replaced The Fireplace When I Was A Child. They Took The Fire Away And They Put A Tv In Instead And I Got Hooked On It.

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