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I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
Secret of the Dragon's Eye : Book One (2007)
I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
Playboy interview (1980)
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists — it's like idol worship.
Rolling Stone interview (1980)
Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.
The Beatles Anthology (2000)
Yes is the answer and you know that for sure.
Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go…
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear.
War is over, if you want it
War is over now.
I think a label like "avant-garde" defeats itself. You learn to have avant-garde exhibitions. The very fact that avant-garde can have an exhibition defeats the purpose of avant-garde, because it's already formalised and ritualised.
The Beatles Anthology (2000)
Christ, you know it ain't easy. You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.
I'm the famous one, the one who's supposed to know everything, but she's my teacher. She's taught me everything I fucking know.
Playboy interview (1980)
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free. But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war—for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969)
So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun.
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel.
Some call it magic — the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.
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.
I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn...
We're only trying to get us some peace.