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John Lennon Quotes - Page 6

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When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

Car, Fans, Wrecks

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

War, Mind, And Love

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

Inspirational, People, Choices

I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.

Song, Writing, Play

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

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.

Dream, People, Mind

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I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

Dream, Jesus, Parking Meters

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

All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

Kids, Trying, Variation

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Love, Life, Motivational

You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you.

Teenage, Children, Hate

When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.

Music, Real, Joy

I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

Being Different, Different, Notice Me

John Lennon, Jann Wenner (2000). “Lennon Remembers”, p.137, Verso

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

Inspirational, Motivational, War

Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.

Growth, Wonder, Imagine

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

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

Inspirational, Life, Done

"Song: 'All You Need Is Love'". 1967.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

Inspirational, Thinking, Twelve

Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.36, Verso

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

Crazy, Kids, Responsibility

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

Peace, Live Life, Perhaps Love

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

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

Song

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

Records, Fame, Has Beens

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

Political, Religion, Status Quo

"John Lennon's lost six-hour interview" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2009.

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

Lying, Found

"The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.

Music, Cameras, Speak

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

Important, Males, Way

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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