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John Lennon Quotes - Page 19

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I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

Listening, Blonde, Ears

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

Music, Party, Want

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

Religious, Jesus, Sorry

"Proof the Beatles are bigger than Jesus!" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

Music, Teenager, Writing

The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.

Music, Rock And Roll, Ideas

We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.

Music, Believe, Order

"The Beatles". Book by Hunter Davies, 1968.

I don't miss it. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it.

Music, Missing, Glad

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

Music, Two, People

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

Running, Crazy, Thinking

Song: I'm Only Sleeping

You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.

Nice, Believe, Thinking

"The David Frost Show", June 14, 1969.

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

Inspirational, Life, Emotional

I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

Now And Then, Chips, Shoulders

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

Education, Years, Careers

Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.

Believe, Men, Thinking

"All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono". Book by David Sheff, G. Barry Golson, St. Martin's Griffin, pp. 112-113, 2000.

If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.

Being Yourself, Thinking, Together

"The Beatles: An Oral History" by David Pritchard and Alan Lysaght, New York: Hyperion, (p. 285), 1998.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

New York, Regret, Air

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

Believe, Past, Thinking

Interview with David Sheff, www.john-lennon.com. January 1981.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

Eight, People, Being Different

"Lennon Remembers, Part Two". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. February 4, 1971.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

World, Want, Revolution

Song: Revolution

In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn't see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way.

People, Being Different, Way

I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.

Music, Song, Writing

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

Baby, Men, Rich

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

Years, Giving, Earth

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

Come together, right now.

Together, Togetherness, Right Now

Song: Come Together

I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up - that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.

Growing Up, Sick, Want

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