Sean Lennon Quotes
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I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.
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They say rock is dead. Andy Warhol said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.
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There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
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Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.
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I was always nervous to play my father's John Lennon's songs.
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I like songs that go to different places and then come back.
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Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.
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My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection
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The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
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Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.
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We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
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I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of rock music.
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I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.
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You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.
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I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
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Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist
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My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.
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Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
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I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.
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I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
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I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.
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I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
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I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
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I like music because it's the only invisible art form.