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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

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.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

There is no problem only solutions

Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.

Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing ... Nobody can play guitar like that

I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

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.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

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 ...

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen!
I am the walrus!

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

Life is what is happening today while you were planning tomorrow

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme

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.

Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Strawberry fields forever

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

It's weird not to be weird.

I really thought that love would save us all.

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.

War is over ... If you want it.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!

Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

Link Wray and Gene Vincent ... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

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 ...

Love is real, real is love.

If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill

We gave up everything just to sit at your table.

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

Whatever gets you through the night

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

Get back to where you once belonged,

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Whatever gets you through your life 'salright, 'salright

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

I don't believe in yesterday.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

Everything is as important as everything else.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.

Make love, not war.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

imagine a world without people