John Lennon Quotes
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Art is only a way of expressing pain.
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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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There are no problems, only solutions.
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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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Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
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It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.
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It's amazing how low you go to get high.
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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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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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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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The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends...
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How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
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I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.
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I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
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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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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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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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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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Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.
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There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
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It In My Life was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.
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I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind...
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I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...