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“All we are saying is give peace a chance!”

"Give Peace a Chance"
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Variant: Give Peace a Chance.

“Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.”

"I Am The Walrus"
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Source: Beatles Lyrics

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. … I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”

"What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?" in The Beatles Anthology (2000)

“I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.”

“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it”

Source: The Writings of John Lennon

“I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.”

“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?”

“One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.”

“So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?”

“I still believe that all you need is love.”

“The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you”

Source: Beatles Lyrics

“Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.”

“I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
Closing line of the Beatles' rooftop concert on (30 January 1969), this was also the last line of the Let It Be film and the album version of "Get Back"”

“Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.”

“Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.”

Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 171

“Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.”

“Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.”

Statement (28 August 1965) after meeting Elvis Presley, as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2005) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 386; also partly quoted in The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968) by Hunter Davies, p. 19<br>It was a load of rubbish. It was like meeting Engelbert Humperdinck.<br>Later comments on meeting Elvis, as quoted in The Beatles: The Biography (2005) by Bob Spitz, p. 583. <br class="br">Context: There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”

“I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.”

“Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.”