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We Went To America A Few Times And [brian] Epstein Always Tried To Waffle On At Us About Saying Nothing About Vietnam. So There Came A Time When George [harrison] And I Said 'listen, When They Ask Next Time, We're Going To Say We Don't Like That War And We Think They Should Get Right Out.' That's What We Did.

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We Went To America A Few Times And [brian] Epstein Always Tried To Waffle On At Us About Saying Nothing About Vietnam. So There Came A Time When George [harrison] And I Said 'listen, When They Ask Next Time, We're Going To Say We Don't Like That War And We Think They Should Get Right Out.' That's What We Did.

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

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I Still Believe In Peace, Love And Understanding.

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

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?

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.

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The First Line (of I Am The Walrus) Was Written On One Acid Trip One Weekend. The Second Line Was Written On The Next Acid Trip The Next Weekend, And It Was Filled In After I Met Yoko.

Avant-garde Is French For Bullshit

Where Do People Get Off Saying The Beatles Should Give $200,000,000 To South America? You Know, America Has Poured Billions Into Places Like That. It Doesn't Mean A Damn Thing. After They've Eaten That Meal, Then What? It Lasts For Only A Day. After The $200,000,000 Is Gone, Then What? It Goes Round And Round In Circles. You Can Pour Money In Forever. After Peru, Then Harlem, Then Britain. There Is No One Concert. We Would Have To Dedicate The Rest Of Our Lives To One World Concert Tour, And I'm Not Ready For It. Not In This Lifetime, Anyway.

Everything Is As Important As Everything Else.

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

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.

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

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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.

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How Can I Give Love When I Don't Know What It Is I'm Giving?

A Very Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year Let's Hope It's A Good One Without Any Fear.

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.

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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.

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Produce Your Own Dream. If You Want To Save Peru, Go Save Peru. It’s Quite Possible To Do Anything, But Not If You Put It On The Leaders And The Parking Meters. Don’t Expect Carter Or Reagan Or John Lennon Or Yoko Ono Or Bob Dylan Or Jesus Christ To Come And Do It For You. You Have To Do It Yourself.

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.

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So Long Ago, Was It In A Dream, Was It Just A Dream?

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

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.

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.

I Once Was The Walrus, Now I'm John.

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.

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

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

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.

Happiness Is A Good Vibe For Peace.

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

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

Yoko [ono] Was Well Into Liberation Before I Met Her. She'd Had To Fight Her Way Through A Man's World - The Art World Is Completely Dominated By Men - So She Was Full Of Revolutionary Zeal When We Met.

There's High, And Then There's High, And To Get Really High--i Mean So High That You Can Walk On The Water, That High--that's Where I'm Goin'

All We Are Saying Is Give Peace A Chance.

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

There Is A Time To Let Things Happen, And A Time To Make Things Happen." "life Is What Happens When You Are Making Other Plans.

Make Things Happen

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.

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

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.

Slipping? We're Bigger Than Jesus.

I Didn't Come After Elvis And Dylan, I've Been Around Always. But If I See Or Meet A Great Artist, I Love 'em.

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.

We All Been Playing Those Mind Games Forever, Some Kinda Druid Dudes Lifting The Veil, Doing The Mind Guerrilla, Some Call It Magic The Search For The Grail. Love Is The Answer And You Know That For Sure, Love Is A Flower You Got To Let It Grow...

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.

I Felt That Film (let It Be) Was Set Up By Paul For Paul. That Is One Of The Main Reasons The Beatles Ended. I Can't Speak For George, But I Pretty Damn Well Know We Got Fed Up Of Being Sidemen For Paul. After Brian Died, That's What Happened, That's What Began To Happen To Us. The Camera Work Was Set Up To Show Paul And Not Anybody Else. And That's How I Felt About It.

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Love Is The Answer. What Was The Question?

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.

The Lyrics Stand Today (1980). They're Still My Feeling About Politics. I Want To See The Plan. I Want To Know What You're Going To Do After You've Knocked It All Down. I Mean, Can't We Use Some Of It? What's The Point Of Bombing Wall Street? If You Want To Change The System, Change The System. It's No Good Shooting People.

There's Room At The Top They Are Telling You Still, But First You Must Learn How To Smile As You Kill.

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'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 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.

One Thing You Can't Hide - Is When You're Crippled Inside.

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

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

The Only Reason I Am A Star Is Because Of My Repression. Nothing Else Would Have Driven Me Through All That If I Was 'normal'.

Being Different

Tell The Truth And Make It Rhyme

Telling The Truth

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.

He Laid It On George, Me And Our Wives Without Telling Us At A Dinner Party At His House. He Was A Friend Of George's, And Our Dentist At The Time. He Just Put It In Our Coffee Or Something. He Didn't Know What It Was, It Was Just, 'it's All The Thing,' With The Middle-class London Swingers. They Had All Heard About It And Didn't Know It Was Different From Pot Or Pills. And They Gave It To Us, And He Was Saying, 'i Advise You Not To Leave,' And We Thought He Was Trying To Keep Us For An Orgy In His House And We Didn't Want To 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.

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.

One More Stage, One More Limo, One More Run For Your Life.

I Was A Working-class Macho Guy Who Was Used To Being Served And Yoko Didn't Buy That. From The Day I Met Her, She Demanded Equal Time, Equal Space, Equal Rights.

Whenever In Doubt, Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, And Float Downstream.

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