“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.”
“A mistake is only an error,
it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it”
“All you need is love.”
“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
“Avant-garde is French for bullshit”
“Before Elvis there was nothing.”
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends
but it’ll always get you the right ones”
“But I can be alone without Yoko, but I just have no wish to be.
There’s no reason on earth why I should be alone without Yoko.
There’s nothing more important than our relationship, nothing.
And we dig being together all the time.
Both of us could survive apart but what for?
I’m not going to sacrifice love, real love
for any whore or any friend or any business,
because in the end you’re alone at night and neither of us want to be.
And you can’t fill a bed with groupies.
It doesn’t work. I don’t want to be a swinger.
I’ve been through it all and nothing works better
than to have someone you love hold you.”
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
We're more popular than Jesus now.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
“Count your age by friends, not years.
Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
“Creativity is a gift.
It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.”
“Declare it. Just the same way we declare war.
That is how we will have peace...
we just need to declare it.”
“Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.”
“Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need.”
“Everything is clearer when you're in love.”
“Everything will be okay in the end.
If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
“For those of you in the cheap seats
I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one;
the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!”
“Free as a bird
It's the next best thing to be
Free as a bird.
Home, home and dry
Like a homing bird I'll fly
As a bird on wings.
Whatever happened to
The life that we once knew?
Can we really live without each other?
Where did we lose the touch
That seemed to mean so much?
It always made me feel so free.”
“Give peace a chance”
“Give us a kiss”
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain”
“Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.”
“How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”
“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.”
“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 going to say that dreams and nightmares
aren’t as real as the here and now?
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
“I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed
and Buddha and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
“I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.”
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
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.”
“I love humanity, it's people I can't stand.”
“I made the decision at sixteen or seventeen that what I did,
I wanted everybody to see.
I wasn’t going after the aestheticism of the monastery
or the lone artist who supposedly
doesn’t care what people think about his work.
I care a lot about whether people hate it or love it,
because it hurts me when they hate it, or hate me,
and it’s pleasing when they like it.
That’s just the predicament of being an artist.”
“I put things down on sheets of paper
and stuff them in my pockets.
When I have enough, I have a book.”
“I still believe that all you need is love.”
“I used to think that the world
was doing something to me,
that the world owed me something.
And that either the conservatives
or the socialists or the fascists
or the communists or the Christians
or the Jews or the fascists
were doing something to me.
And when you're a teeny-booper,
that's what you think.
I'm 40 now, I don't think that anymore
because I found out it doesn't fucking work.
I am part of them. There's no separation.
Were all one. "Give peace a chance,"
not "Shoot people for peace."
"All you need is love." I believe it.
It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.”
“I was asked in an interview
which was more important: money or love?
I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question,
he wouldn't understand the answer.”
“I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore”
“I was the walrus,
but now I am John...
and so my friends,
you'll just have to carry on.
The dream is over.”
“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.”
“I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group
and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.”
“If being an egomaniac means
I believe in what I do and in my art or music,
then in that respect you can call me that...
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
“If everyone demanded peace
instead of another television set,
then there'd be peace.”
“If someone thinks that peace and love
are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s,
that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
“If there hadn't been an Elvis,
there wouldn't have been the Beatles.”
“If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.”
“If you want to be like the folks up on the hill,
you have to learn to smile while you kill”
“If you wanna be a hero, well Just Follow ME.”
“I'm not afraid of death
because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car,
and into another.”
“I'm not going to change the way I look
or the way I feel to conform to anything.
I've always been a freak.
So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that,
you know. I'm one of those people.”
“I'm not going to sacrifice love,
real love, for any fuckin' war
or any friend, or any business,
because in the end you're alone at night.”
"Imagine"
“imagine a world without people”
“Imagine all the people, sharing all the world”
“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
“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.”
“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”
“It was like being in the eye of a hurricane.
You'd wake up in a concert and think
"Wow how did I get here?”
“It's weird not to be weird.”
“I've never really been wanted.”
“Later, I went back and looked at it
and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story
and the carpenter was the good guy.
I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy.
I should have said, ‘I am the carpenter.’
But that wouldn’t have been the same, would it? ‘
I am the carpenter….”
“Let It Be”
“Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends”
“Life is what happens while you are making other plans”
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like
a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
“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.”
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir,
once given never forgotten,
never let it disappear.”
“Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow.”
“Love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep on watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.”
“Love is the Answer. What was the Question?”
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
“Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”
“Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King
are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently.
I can never work that out. We're pacifists,
but I'm not sure what it means
when you're such a pacifist that you get shot.
I can never understand that.”
“Make love, not war.”
“Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.”
“Music is everybody's business.
It's only the publishers who think people own it”
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