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"It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?""
"Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve."
"All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent."
"One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made."
"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."
"The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it."
"One need not fear for the future of music."
"I don't need sound to talk to me."
"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."
"There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles."
"I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers"
"There is no limit to desire but desire's needs."
"You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore."
"Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?"
"Need is never a good basis for any relationship."
"Every paper girl needs at least one string."
"Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't."
"The right story needs the right telling."
"They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it."
""All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it."
