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John Lennon Quotes - Page 24

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They'll never be able to forget us.

They'll never be able to forget us.

Inspirational, Able, Forget

It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.

Choices, Eating, Chickens

If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with love from me to you.

Love, Want, Can Do

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

Humble, Men, Thinking

John Lennon (2000). “In His Own Write”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!

Thinking, Youth, Hours

I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.

Song, Writing, Thinking

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

Music, Jesus, Art

1966 In the Evening Standard.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Music, Jesus, Rocks

Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

Eye, Marijuana, Smoking

There is no problem only solutions

Problem, No Problem, Solutions

Song: Watching The Wheels, Album: Double Fantasy, 1998

If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

Jobs, People, Mind

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

Song, Simple, Interesting

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

Song, Writing, People

Source: www.counterpunch.org

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

Scene, Accents

Source: www.counterpunch.org

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

School, People, Giving

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

Mistake, Sound, Revolution

Source: www.counterpunch.org

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.

Army, Wells

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

Children, Thinking, Fire

Source: blankonblank.org

I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.

Hate, Army, Police

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.

Waiting, Police, Green

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

Running, Taken, Factories

Source: www.counterpunch.org

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

Song, Two, Revolution

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.

Reading, Thinking, Ideas

Source: www.counterpunch.org

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

Revolutionary, Communist, Shouting

Source: www.counterpunch.org

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Mother, Father, Splits

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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