John Lennon Quotes
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Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
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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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It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko Ono. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
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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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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 regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
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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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"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.
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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 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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I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing - and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said - the basic things he laid down about love and goodness - and not what people say he said.
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Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.
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We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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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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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 think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
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I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.
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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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Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
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There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
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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.