John Lennon Quotes
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I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.
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I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.
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Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
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I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.
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Art is only a way of expressing pain.
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I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.
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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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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
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Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of Bob Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.
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Don't hate what you don't understand!
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It's amazing how low you go to get high.
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How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
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The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
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Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?
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I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.
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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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Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
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I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.
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If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends...
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Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
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The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
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Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.