John Lennon Quotes
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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth...
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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'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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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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Father, you left me, but I never left you.
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I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
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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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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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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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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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In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
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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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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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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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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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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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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 am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
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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 is clearer when you're in love.
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Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!
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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...