John Lennon Quotes
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Happiness is a good vibe for peace.
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The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
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Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
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Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.
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You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.
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There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy. Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy.
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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
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It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
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I really thought that love would save us all.
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
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Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.
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Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
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I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.
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Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them...
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Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.
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Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
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In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.
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What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.
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Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.
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You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.
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It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
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The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
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One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.