"I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing."
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"Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe"
"I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me."
"And so this is Christmas...what have you done?"
"If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like."
"Come together, right now."
"I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me."
"Music is everybody's possession."
"I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything."
"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."
"I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe."
"Money can't buy me love."
"I don't believe in yesterday."
"I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church..."
"Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?"
"Love is needing to be loved."
"Remember to let her into your heart."
"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."
"All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees."
"Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real."