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John Lennon Quotes - Page 16

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What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

Mean, Doe, Shots

Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.

Crazy, Thinking, Genius

When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.

War, Bed, Use

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

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

Inspirational, Running, Limos

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Music, Our Generation, Nwo

New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

Art, New York, Paris

In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

Book, Writing, School

Source: www.counterpunch.org

The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.

Music, Song, Writing

Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

Horse, Sex, War

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

Peace, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

Music, Dean, Music Is

Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.

Beautiful, Dream, Imagine

I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.

Dream, Cocoons, Chance

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

Art, Bullshit, Avant Garde

Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

Rain, Garden, Waiting

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

Art

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

Dream, War, Twilight

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

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

Wisdom, Want, Way

From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.

Waiting, Moments, Knows

Song: Real Love

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

Song: Strawberry Fields Forever

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

Joy, Mind, Sorrow

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

Long, Pieces, One Piece

Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.333, Omnibus Press

I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.

Believe, Zimmerman, Believe In Me

"God" (song) (1970).

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

Dressed Up, Happened, Sixty

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

Love Is, Knowing

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

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