John Lennon Quotes
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
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It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
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Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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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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The more I see the less I know for sure.
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I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
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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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As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.
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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 don't stand back and judge - I do.
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Songwriting 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 to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...
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Everything is clearer when you're in love.
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Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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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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Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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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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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!
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Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.