A mistake is only an error. It becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.
Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don’t pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.
Don’t hate what you don’t understand!
If you’re an unknown artist you’re lucky to get an hour in a studio – it’s a hierarchy and if you don’t have hits, you don’t get recorded again.
Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.
Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don’t have the impact we had when we were together.
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there’s no problem, only solutions.
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.
I don’t intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I’ll be around I don’t intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don’t want to die at 40.
Always remember this: ‘A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.’
A day spent wasting time that you enjoyed is not time wasted...
The artist’s role isn’t to tell people how to feel, but reflect.
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that’s when you’re most idealistic and have least fear.
The establishment irritates you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight because once they’ve got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humour.
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?
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.
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.