John Lennon Quotes
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You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?
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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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...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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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
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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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I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
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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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Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
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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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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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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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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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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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We had one thing in common – we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
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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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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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I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.