John Lennon Quotes
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She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.
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Music is everybody's possession.
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When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
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I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.
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LSD went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.
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In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
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Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
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Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...
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"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."
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You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.
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I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.
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Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.
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Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
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I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
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If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.
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When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.
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Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
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The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.
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I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.
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We went to America a few times and Brian Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George Harrison and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.
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I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
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Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
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If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole...
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Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.