John Lennon Quotes
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Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.
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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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Polythene Pam was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.
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Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.
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Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine 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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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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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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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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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
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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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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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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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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.
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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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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.