- All Quotes
- News Quotes
-
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
-
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
-
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
-
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
-
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
-
I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
-
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
-
It's amazing how low you go to get high.
-
There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy... All you need is love.
-
People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.
-
People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.
-
I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
-
I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.
-
One may not eat what has a face.
-
There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
-
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.
-
All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.
-
Art is only a way of expressing pain.
-
What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.
-
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
-
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
-
The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
-
I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
-
To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.