"If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!"
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"I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night"
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"In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn't see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way."
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"Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture."
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"How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes."
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"Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care."
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"Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it."
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"It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage."
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"And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses."
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"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."
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"I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it."
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"To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'."
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"If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time."
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"Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity."
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"You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate"
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"Happiness is a good vibe for peace."
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"If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness."
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"How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery."
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"I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing - and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said - the basic things he laid down about love and goodness - and not what people say he said."
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"At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness."
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