John Lennon Quotes
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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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Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
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After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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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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You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
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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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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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I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it...
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People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.
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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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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
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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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Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all
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Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth...
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When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.