![]() ![]() Peace is not something you wish for It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?Įverything will be okay in the end. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. ![]() So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. I believe in everything until it’s disproved. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. ![]() I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. “I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. “Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.”ġ7. “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.”ġ6. “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. ![]() Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”ġ4. “My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”ġ3. “I believe in everything until it’s disproved. “You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”ġ2. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”ġ0. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. We’re more popular than Jesus now I don’t know which will go first-rock and roll or Christianity.”ĩ. I needn’t argue with that I’m right and I will be proved right. “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”Ĩ. “Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”ħ. “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”ĥ. “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”Ĥ. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”ģ. “We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. 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. “Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. ![]()
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