John Lennon Quotes
I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I love writing songs.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
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You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.
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I think one of the most important things when I was learning how to do that was finding songs that I liked that had guitar solos in them and trying to figure out how to play those because even if it wasn’t me playing along to a previously recorded Dropkick Murphys solo I was, at least, learning how to play like that.
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In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.
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You can almost take the book and use it as a script.
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Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.
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I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.
