Sean Lennon Quotes
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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 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 feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
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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 don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.
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I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
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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 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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I try not to do anything by formula.
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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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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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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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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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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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Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.
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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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My tendency is to be very experimental.
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The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.
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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.