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Life
is just what happens to you,
while you're busy making other plans.
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I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my
life
and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real
life
. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.
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It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if
life
was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan — we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert — but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go. I'm not judging whether "I Am The Walrus" is better or worse than "Imagine." It is for others to judge. I am doing it. I do. I don't stand back and judge — I do.
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All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my
life
, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.
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Life
is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends.
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I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to
life
. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from
life
. When we are in love, we open to all that
life
has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.
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All art is pain expressing itself. I think all
life
is, everything we do, but particularly artists — that's why they're always vilified. They're always persecuted because they show pain; they can't help it. They express it in art and the way they live, and people don't like to see that reality that they're suffering.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
John Lennon
Born:
October 9, 1940
Died:
December 8, 1980
(aged 40)
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