User:Matt Lives

Matt is a nincompoop who lives on a mountain in Alaska "Being arrested wouldn't be half as bad if the pigs would just eat a tic-tac before they started squealing in your face"

 Lennon Quotes: 

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?

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Reality leaves allot to the imagination

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It’s just a dumb trip, which I can’t condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It’s something to be avoided if one can help it

When you're drowning you don’t say I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me, you just scream.

There is nothing you can know that isn’t' known

All art is pain expressing itself

People think that you want them to do something or say something special...you don’t. You want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself

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.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyways. You’ve got to get down to your won god in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I wouldn’t say I was a born writer; I’m a born thinker. I’d always been able at school - when they want you to imagine something instead of giving you a subject, I could do that.

There’s nothing conceptually better than rock and roll. No group, be it the Beatles, Dylan or the stones has ever improved on whole lotta shaking going on for my money. Maybe I’m like our parents. That’s’ my period. I dig it and I’ll never leave it.

I believe in god but no as one thing not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call god is something in all of us. I believe that way Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translation have gone wrong.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality

They’ve been saying rock n' roll was dead since it began... it'll never die

Rituals are important nowadays it's hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip

You either get tired of fighting for peace or you die

They only wanted scientist in the fifties. Any artsy-fartsy people were spies. They still are, in society

I always was a rebel because of whatever sociological thing gave me a chip on the shoulder. But on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted. That’s way I’m on stage like a performing flea. Because I would like to belong.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten never let it disappear.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility