John Lennon Quotes
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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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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
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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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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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The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.
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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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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 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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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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I want it to sound like an orange.
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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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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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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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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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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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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.
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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.