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John Lennon Quotes - Page 17

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My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Inspirational, Motivational, Hero

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

Political, Acid, Cases

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

Song: Julia

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

Joy, Sorrow, Pool

"Song: "Across the Universe"". "Let It Be", 1970.

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

Dream, Long Ago, Long

Song: Number 9 Dream

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

Life Is, Plans, Happens

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Love, Death, Song

Song: Nobody Loves You, Album: Anthology

When you cross the street, take my hand

Hands, Crosses, Take My Hand

Don't need a gun to blow your mind

Blow, Gun, Mind

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

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. Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy. Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy.

Song, Play, Games

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

God, Father, Reality

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

Impact, People, Together

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Happiness is a warm gun.

Gun, Warm

John Lennon, Jann Wenner (2000). “Lennon Remembers”, p.115, Verso

I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Inspirational, Kings, Real

Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.156, Omnibus Press

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

Jesus, Believe, Magic

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

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

Inspirational, Two, Creating

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

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

Color, Reporters

Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These.

Investing

Song: Nobody Told Me, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.

Rocks, Parent, Groups

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

Atheist, Heaven, Religion

"Imagine" (song) (1971)

I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Jesus, Taken, Christ

"Ringo was the secret ingredient and other revelations from Ron Howard’s Beatles movie" by Stephanie Merry, www.washingtonpost.com. September 16, 2016.

We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.

Love, Peace, Looks

There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.

Thinking, Order, World

It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

People, Boring

Source: blankonblank.org

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

Pain, Insane, Blame

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