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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 would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.
We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
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?
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
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.
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.
I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
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.
I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.
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
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.
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.
Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.
Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?
In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.
Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.
News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)
You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
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.
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.
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.
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
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'.
Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.
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.
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.
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.
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.