"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
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"If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty."
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"There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store."
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"Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it."
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"If I were dead, I would be the last to know."
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"I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that."
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"I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude."
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"When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do."
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"I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'"
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"It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine."
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"There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land"
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"Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird."
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"I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life.""
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"I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple."
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"A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart."
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"I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results."
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"The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults."
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"I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument."
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"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
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"What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song."
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