"When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day."
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"I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal."
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"We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls."
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"When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting."
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"Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue"."
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"I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death."
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"I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting."
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"One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world."
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"Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing."
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"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you."
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"It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid."
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"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it."
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"Think globally, act locally."
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"No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way."
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"At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod."
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"Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time."
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"...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend."
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"I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine."
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"One may not eat what has a face."
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"A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now."
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