John Lennon Quotes - Page 16

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• When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.

  John Lennon

  War, Bed, Use

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

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• I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

  John Lennon

  Rights, Class, Space

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• In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

  John Lennon

  Book, Writing, School

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

  John Lennon

  Crazy, Cities, San Francisco

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• There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

  John Lennon

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

  John Lennon

  Children, Eye, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

  John Lennon

  Horse, Sex, War

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

  John Lennon

  Art, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

  John Lennon

  Love, Peace, Soap

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• Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

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• Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

  John Lennon

  Music, Dean, Music Is

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• Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.

  John Lennon

  Beautiful, Dream, Imagine

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• Avant-garde is French for bullshit

  John Lennon

  Art, Bullshit, Avant Garde

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• I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Cocoons, Chance

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Sitting in an English
  Garden waiting for the sun
  If the sun don't come
  You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

  John Lennon

  Rain, Garden, Waiting

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• Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

  John Lennon

  Art

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• Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

  John Lennon

  Dream, War, Twilight

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

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• From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.

  John Lennon

  Waiting, Moments, Knows

  Song: Real Love

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• We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

  John Lennon

  Wisdom, Want, Way

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• Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

  Song: Strawberry Fields Forever

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• I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

  John Lennon

  Long, Pieces, One Piece

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.333, Omnibus Press

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• I don't believe in Elvis
  I don't believe in Zimmerman
  I don't believe in Beatles
  I just believe in me.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Zimmerman, Believe In Me

  "God" (song) (1970).

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• Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

  John Lennon

  Joy, Mind, Sorrow

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• Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

  John Lennon

  Love Is, Knowing

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

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• Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

  John Lennon

  Dressed Up, Happened, Sixty

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