Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go.
Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.
Imagine all the people living life in peace...
We’re crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That’s just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.
The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
Trying to please everybody is impossible – if you did that, you’d end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You’ve just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.
I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.
Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.
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.
The women are very important too, we can’t have a revolution that doesn’t involve and liberate women. It’s so subtle the way you’re taught male superiority.
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn’t know how to cry. Simple.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
You’d have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It’s already happening, though people have got to get together more.