In the words of John Lennon:
What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
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.
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.
I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.
A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear.
When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.
Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.
I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.
The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
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.
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.
Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.
Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
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