John Lennon Quotes
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...
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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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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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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
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The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.
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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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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
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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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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
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I want it to sound like an orange.
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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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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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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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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I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.
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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth...
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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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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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Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.