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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
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When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
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I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
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I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
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I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
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I don’t mind talking or smiling, it’s just I don’t do it very much. I haven’t got a smiling face or a talking mouth.
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Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
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I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.
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George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them
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Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
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Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them...
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The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
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We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.
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Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.
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What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.
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You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
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Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away
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I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.
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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
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I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.