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John Lennon Quotes - Page 12

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In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be

In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.

Girl, Real, Eye

Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.

Meditation, Drug, Doing You

People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.

Christian, Dog, Teacher

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.

Games, Play, Too Much

Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.

Beautiful, Baby, Children

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

Love Life, Government, Cynical

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.

Evil, Political, Religion

"The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 226), 2000.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

Animal, Gun, Ideas

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

Friendship, Race, Together

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

Humble, Albums, Records

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

Xenon, Fleas, Monk

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

Teenage, Real, Writing

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

Years, Lsd, Used

Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.52, Verso

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.

War, Thinking, America

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.

Inspirational, Motivational, Pain

"Song: 'Instant Karma!'". 1970.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Artist, Idols, People

"John Lennon: The Last Interview". Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 2010.

I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Dream, Walrus, My Friends

"Song: 'God' ('John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band')". 1970.

Whatever gets you through the night

Perseverance, Acceptance, Night

Song: Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Album: Power To The People: The Hits

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

Teamwork, Dream, Hope

Song: Imagine

When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?

Mean, Being In Love, Rocks

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Relationship, Wife, My Best Friend

"Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon".

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

Music, Army, Died

"Elvis Presley: The return of the King" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2010.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Has Beens, Ifs

John Lennon's statement after meeting Elvis Presley (August 28, 1965) as quoted in Jane Ellen Wayne "The Leading Men of MGM" (p. 386), February 17, 2005.

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

Fire, President, Problem

You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

Friendship, Jeans, Teens

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