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John Lennon Quotes - Page 20

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Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

Interesting, Sun, Records

They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.

Artist, Misunderstood, Needs

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

Jesus, Thinking, Rock And Roll

'Evening Standard' 4 March 1966 (interview with Maureen Cleave).

For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty. It would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better.

Music, Memories, Rocks

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

Horse, Artist, Men

Rituals are important.

Important, Ritual

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

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

Talking, Singing, Needs

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I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

Kids, Views, Doe

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I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

Believe, Ferris Bueller, Believe In Me

"God" (song) (1970).

I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night

Dream, Night, Looks

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

Army, People, Warning

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I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind

Giving, Mind, Peace Of Mind

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

Wall, Mean, People

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

Affection, Affected

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

Listening, Records, Enjoy

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

I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)

Karma, Believe, Heal

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

Music, Swim, Messages

He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.

Party, Coffee, Class

Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

Music

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

Inspirational, Guitar, Mad

Rolling Stone Magazine, December 1970.

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

Religious, Talking, Bye

How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

Sex, People, Realising

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

Pain, Sadness, Dope

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

Happiness, Gun, Arms

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

Peace, Xmas, Fighting

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