John Lennon Quotes
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Art is only a way of expressing pain.
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Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
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I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
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What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
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You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you.
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The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
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The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
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It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.
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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
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I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind...
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The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.
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There was never any question about it: we with Yoko Ono had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.
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People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
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And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
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I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.
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Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
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It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
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There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm going...
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends...
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I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
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Instant Karma is going to get you.