John Lennon Quotes
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
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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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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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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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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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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 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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Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
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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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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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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
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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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The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.
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I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.
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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 want it to sound like an orange.
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The lyrics stand today 1980. They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.
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Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
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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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Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.