John Lennon Quotes

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Steps
  • Dogs

• I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Like

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Body

• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Will
  • Others
  • Himself

• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• For me, I always like to get up bright and early.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Up

• Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Help
  • Man
  • Heaven

• I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • People
  • Reporter
  • Weigh

• You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hair

• Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Hand
  • Fall

• I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Pretty
  • Period
  • Humans

• I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Sleep

• I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Help
  • Universe
  • Wisdom

• I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Job
  • Want

• I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Day
  • Road
  • Write

• I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Record
  • Talking
  • Kruesi

• It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Community
  • Ideas
  • Individual

• I play keyboards and have played on many a Toto record.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Record
  • Keyboards
  • Toto

• When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Record
  • Produce
  • Decca