"GIVE PEACE A CHANCE"
~ John Lennon

"We All Shine On, Like the Moon and the Stars and the Sun"
~John Lennon, "Instant Karma!"

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
~ John Lennon

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
~ John Lennon

"I wish you could see the world through my eyes"
~Korn, "Dirty"

"I Am He As You Are He As You Are Me And We Are All Together"
~The Beatles, "I am The Walrus"

"I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends, I Get High With A Little Help From My Friends"
~The Beatles, "With a Little Help From My Friends"

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
~ John Lennon

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."
~ The Rolling Stones

"It's Alright To Make Mistakes...You're Only Human"
~Dido, "Slide"

"Dream until your dreams come true."
~ The Rolling Stones, 1973

"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up."
~ John Lennon

"They Can't Hurt You Unless You Let Them"
~Everclear, "One Hit Wonder

"If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If it's marketed right, you'll buy it. But if it's real, you'll feel it."
~Kid Rock

"I'm really not that different, you just made me think so."
~ Our Lady Peace, "Everyone's a Junkie"

"Love is all you need"
~ The Beatles, "All You Need is Love

"It's all music."
~ Jimi Hendrex

"Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what people need."
~ Lauren Hill

"A pop song may be very short, but it is very powerful" ~Yoko Ono
"So is a heartbeat" ~ John Lennon

"Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible."
~ John Lennon

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
~ John Lennon

"Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality and we always have a choice, but how much is pre-ordained?"
~ John Lennon

"...They gave you sunshine, they gave you the sea, they gave you everything but equality."
~ Yoko Ono

"Come writers and critics/ Who prophesize with your pen"
~ Bob Dyan, 'The Times They are A-Changin'

"These are not my laws/ These are not my rules"
~ Ani DiFranco

"This ain't high school baby/ You had your chance"
~Ani DiFranco

"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, ok!"
~ Madonna

"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have fun with all of the wrong ones."
~ Cher

"You made me what I am /But who the hell am I?"
~ Ill Nino, How Can I Live

“Love is ugly, smooth and delicate”
~ Angry, Matchbox Twenty

“You’ll never get to heaven if you’re scared of getting high”
~ Kyle Moneuge

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
~ Beatles, The End.

“Sometimes it’s not the answers it’s the questions that are important.”
~ Alice Cooper

“My picture never fits your frame”
~ ‘Absolutely Not’, Deborah Cox

”You can’t see me with your mind closed”
~ ‘Absolutely Not’, Deborah Cox

”Not a victim of your social push and shove”
‘Absolutely Not’, Deborah Cox

”I still have breath so I have hope that love is on my side”
~’Everyday’, Kim English

“The Stars are jealous of your shine”
~Train, Your Every Colour

“They hate you if you’re clever/ and they despise the fool.”
~John Lennon, Working Class Hero

“Time doesn’t slow down for those who dream”
~ ‘Scream’, Ima Robot

“Don’t be scared of all the hurtful words/ cause in the end they’ll hurt themselves much more”
~ ‘You Are My Joy’, The Reindeer Section

"I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds looking to wed."
~Yoko Ono Lennon, on same-sex marriage

“You see, the pictures lose nothing in the translation.”
~John Lennon

”There are good guys and bad guys. The struggle is in the mind. We must bury our own monsters and stop condemning people.”
~John Lennon

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are”
~Kurt Cobain

“More than a fucked up piece of ass.”
~George Michael, Flawless (Go To The City)

“You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”
~George Michael, "Kissing A Fool"

“OK, so Flower Power didn’t work. So what. We start again”
~John Lennon

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
~ John Lennon

“Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book.”
~Madonna

“I am my on experiment. I am my own work of art.”
~Madonna

“Straight men need to be emasculated. I’m sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man’s tongue in his mouth at least once.”
~ Madonna

“You don’t have to like me for who I am/ see what you’re made of by what you make of me”
~ Ani DiFranco, Willing to Fight

“I fight fire with words/ Words are hotter than flames/ Words are wetter than water.”
~ Ani DiFranco, Willing to Fight

“You have your whole life to do something and that’s not very long.”
~ Ani DiFranco, Willing to Fight

"Let's invest in basic human dignity, by listening to their ideas, instead of imposing our own. Let's lead the world by making child poverty history, our priority, here at home."
~Brad Merritt, Bassist, 54•40

“I don’t know who wrote what parts of what Beatles songs, but Paul McCartney embarrasses me. Lennon was obviously disturbed…I just felt really sorry for him…his life was a prison. He was imprisoned. It’s not fair. That’s the crux of the problem that I’ve had with becoming a celebrity – the way people deal with celebrities.”
~ Kurt Cobain

“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”
~John Lennon

"Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either."
~ John Lennon

"I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not."
~John Lennon

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
~ John Lennon

"Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them..."
~John Lennon