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What I'm Trying To Do Is To Influence All The People I Can Influence. All Those Who Are Still Under The Dream And Just Put A Big Question Mark In Their Mind. The Acid Dream Is Over, That Is What I'm Trying To Tell Them.

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What I'm Trying To Do Is To Influence All The People I Can Influence. All Those Who Are Still Under The Dream And Just Put A Big Question Mark In Their Mind. The Acid Dream Is Over, That Is What I'm Trying To Tell Them.

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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.

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

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Imagine There's No Heaven, It's Easy If You Try. No Hell Below Us, Above Us Only Sky. Imagine All The People Living For Today...

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.

What I'm Trying To Do Is To Influence All The People I Can Influence. All Those Who Are Still Under The Dream And Just Put A Big Question Mark In Their Mind. The Acid Dream Is Over, That Is What I'm Trying To Tell Them.

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My Role In Society, Or Any Artist's Or Poet's Role, Is To Try And Express What We All Feel. Not To Tell People How To Feel. Not As A Preacher, Not As A Leader, But As A Reflection Of Us All.

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.

When I Went To School, They Asked Me What I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up. I Wrote Down Happy.

Life Doesn't Imitate Art...it Is Art!

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

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

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[lsd] Went On For Years. I Must Have Had A Thousand Trips. I Used To Just Eat It All The Time.

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You'd Have To Give People Free Rein To Attack The Local Councils Or To Destroy The School Authorities, Like The Students Who Break Up The Repression In The Universities. It's Already Happening, Though People Have Got To Get Together More.

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I Want It To Sound Like An Orange.

When His Rolls Royce Was Mobbed By Fans The Chauffeur Said: ''do You Want Me To Get Them Off The Car?'' And Lennon Replied: ''no - They Paid For It, They Can Wreck It

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.

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.

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.

I'm Not Going To Sacrifice Love, Real Love, For Any *%@$n' War Or Any Friend, Or Any Business, Because In The End You're Alone At Night.

I Wanna Hold Your Gland.

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'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.

Speaking As Somebody Who's Been In The Drug Scene, It's Not Something You Can Go On And On Doing, You Know. It's Like Drink, Or Anything, You've Got To Come To Terms With It. You Know, Like Too Much Food, Or Too Much Anything. You've Got To Get Out Of It. You're Left With Yourself All The Time, Whatever You Do--you Know, Meditation, Drugs Or Anything. But You've Got To Get Down To Your Own God And Your Own Temple In Your Head.

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

Tame Birds Sing Of Freedom. Wild Birds Fly.

All The Revolutions Have Happened When A Fidel Or Marx Or Lenin Or Whatever, Who Were Intellectuals, Were Able To Get Through To The Workers. They Got A Good Pocket Of People Together And The Workers Seemed To Understand That They Were In A Repressed State.

We Were All On This Ship In The Sixties, Our Generation, A Ship Going To Discover The New World. And The Beatles Were In The Crow's Nest Of That Ship.

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