John Lennon Quotes
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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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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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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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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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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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Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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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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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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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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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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If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.
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Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
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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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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
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There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.