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John Lennon Quotes - Page 14

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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

Understanding, Life Is, Human Life

I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .

Stupid, Mean, Class

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.

Music, Song, Emotional

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Children, Ocean, Sleep

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fatherhood". Book by Kevin Osborn, p. 134, October 1, 1999.

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.

Hurt, Pain, Thinking

Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.7, Verso

In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.

Fall, Night, Sober Up

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

Political, Religion, Politician

Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head

Karma, Instant

Song: Instant Karma!

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

Life, Giving, Knows

Song: How ?, Album: Imagine

I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

Religious, Pain, Heart

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

Music, Music Is, Beatles Peace

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

Care, Forgotten, Stills

Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.177, Omnibus Press

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life

Playboy interview, January 1981.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

Love You, Vip, Down And

Song: Nobody Loves You, Album: Anthology

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

Music, Fun, Writing

Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.126, Omnibus Press

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

Believe, Ideas, Political

You can only breathe out if you breathe in.

Breathe, Ifs

And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.

Christmas, Fun, Years

Song: Happy Xmas

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

Education, Clever, Hate

"Working Class Hero" (song) (1970)

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

Love, Life, Motivational

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

Inspirational, Mean, Reality

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Love, Life, Happiness

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

Hippie, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

Song: Imagine

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

Acceptance, Hands, Being Different

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