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Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.
John Lennon The Beatles -
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is.
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I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?
John Lennon The Beatles -
You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?
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I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'...
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
We went to America a few times and Brian Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George Harrison and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.
John Lennon The Beatles
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There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
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I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.
John Lennon The Beatles -
That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
John Lennon The Beatles -
The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
John Lennon The Beatles -
When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.
John Lennon The Beatles
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The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
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The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
Ringo Starr The Beatles