John Lennon Quotes
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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
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Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
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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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What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.
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If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.
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The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
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Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.
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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 there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.
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After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.
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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe...
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Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.
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I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.
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In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control...
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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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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.