John Lennon Quotes
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The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.
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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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I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George Harrison would sit me down and make me listen.
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My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
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Polythene Pam was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.
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Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
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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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I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.
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Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
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If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.
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There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. 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 mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.
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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
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But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.
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When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.
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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
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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...
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There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.
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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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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.