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John Lennon Quotes - Page 11

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One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you

One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.

Music, People, Want

Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.105, Verso

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

Voice, People, Ballet

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

Girl, Dream, Women

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Music, Eye, Thinking

I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

Paper, Lost, Accountants

There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

Hands, Numbers, Want

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

Kids, Writing, Artist

"The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 9), 2000.

Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.

Sleep, Miles, Please

Song: I'm Only Sleeping

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Faith, Jesus, Rock And Roll

Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.15, Omnibus Press

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

Peace, Hippie, Brotherhood Of Man

Song: Imagine, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.

Believe, Promise, Looks

You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?

Dream, Real, Awake

We all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you got to let it grow...

Life, Flower, Love Is

"Song: Mind Games". October 29, 1973.

Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.

Real, Class, People

Source: www.counterpunch.org

There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy... All you need is love.

Life, Song, Games

"Song: All You Need Is Love (Magical Mystery Tour)". July 7, 1967.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

Inspirational, Life, Men

"The Dick Cavett Show", September 24, 1971.

The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.

Music, Believe, Long

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

Jesus, Rocks, Rock And Roll

Interview with Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, March 04, 1966.

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

People, Together, Pockets

Source: www.counterpunch.org

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

Inspirational, Life, New York

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

Music, Real, Drinking

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.

Music, Clever, Fun

"The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 120), 2000.

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...

Letting Go, Running, Song

We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.

Writing, Thinking, Years

I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

Music, Thinking, Years

Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.9, Verso

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