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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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'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
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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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There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
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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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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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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'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
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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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"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.
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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.
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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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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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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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Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
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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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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
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Before Elvis there was nothing.
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
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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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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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...if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
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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.