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John Lennon Quotes - Page 15

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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

Life, War, Making Love

Song: Mind Games

When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

Suicide, Drinking, Believe

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

Inspirational, Life, Shining

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Peace, Light, Giving

1969 Song (with his wife,Yoko Ono), used widely in protests against the Vietnam War.

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.

Artist, Thinking, People

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

Motivational, Men, Hair

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

Children, Women, Mean

KFRC RKO Radio Interview, December 8, 1980.

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...

Atheist, Sky, People

"Imagine" (song) (1971)

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

Inspirational, Life, Mean

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Music, Variation, Notes

John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.

Football, America, Giving

Source: www.counterpunch.org

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

Art, School, Drug

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Music, Ignorance, Thinking

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

Children, Eye, Mind

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

Rights, Class, Space

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

Love, Peace, Soap

We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

Crazy, Cities, San Francisco

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

Fun, Kids, People

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

Children, Regret, Genius

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.

Music, Mean, Ideas

Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

Art, Fighting, Men

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

Not Sure, Realising, Oppressed

Source: www.counterpunch.org

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

Source: www.counterpunch.org

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

Russia, Games, Class

Source: www.counterpunch.org

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

Music, Song, Firsts

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