John Lennon Quotes
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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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Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.
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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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I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.
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Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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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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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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Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.
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And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.
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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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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 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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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
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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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We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.
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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
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Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.
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The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
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Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
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Before Elvis there was nothing.
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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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There was never any question about it: we with Yoko Ono had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.