John Lennon Quotes
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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
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I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
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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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Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
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It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
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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 people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
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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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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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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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I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.
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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 feeling insecure you might not love me anymore...
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
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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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Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
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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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Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.
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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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The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.
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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.