John Lennon Quotes About Being Different

Quotes about: Being Different

• Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

• The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

  John Lennon

  Stars, Being Different, Normal

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

  John Lennon

  Being Different, Different, Notice Me

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

• I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

  John Lennon

  Acceptance, Hands, Being Different

• All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Writing, Artist

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 9), 2000.

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

  John Lennon

  Eight, People, Being Different

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

• 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.

  John Lennon

  People, Being Different, Way

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