John Lennon Quotes
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I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.
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Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
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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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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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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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Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
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Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.
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I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.
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When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.
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I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another...
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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.
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I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
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You can only breathe out if you breathe in.
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Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
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It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.
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We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
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You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?
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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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Don't hate what you don't understand!
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We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.
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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.