Sean Lennon Quotes
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Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
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I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.
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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'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.
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I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
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I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
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When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.
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I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
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I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.
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It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.
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Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
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I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.
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What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.
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I try not to do anything by formula.
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I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…
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Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.
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For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
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I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
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Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.
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I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
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Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s Charlotte Kemp Muhl my last.
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I'm lucky to have had a father John Lennon who paid attention.
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The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.
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The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.