I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn’t go around shouting about it.
You don’t have to be some sort of freak to meditate.
I can’t speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.
I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
It looks like I’m going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -? so they promise. And I believe it, too.
I’m cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I’m not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That’s why I really don’t want to be labeled a cynic.
Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I’ll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.
If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don’t go after it.
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That’s my attitude toward life. So I don’t have any romanticism about any part of my past.
In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.
I’ve always been politically minded and against the status quo. It’s pretty basic when you’re brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.
You don’t have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
I could still be forgotten when I’m dead. I don’t really care what happens when I’m dead.
There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.
It was very romantic. It’s all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it’s in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn’t find a white suit -? I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.
Some people say it’s a when you get older fans the kids don’t like you. It’s true.
In Baby You’re A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you’re a rich man and we’re all rich, heh heh, baby!
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there’s many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I’ve been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.
Why should The Beatles give more? Didn’t they give everything on God’s earth for ten years? Didn’t they give themselves?
There is not one thing that’s Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It’s too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?