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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
John Lennon The Beatles -
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.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing 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 sleep.
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The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
John Lennon The Beatles
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You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
John Lennon The Beatles -
When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.
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Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.
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In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
John Lennon The Beatles -
We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
John Lennon The Beatles
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I get by with a little help from my friends.
John Lennon The Beatles -
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
John Lennon The Beatles -
The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
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I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
John Lennon The Beatles