John Lennon Quotes
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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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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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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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Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!
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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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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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Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth...
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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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Everything is clearer when you're in love.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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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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Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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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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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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I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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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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Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?
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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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In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.