John Lennon Quotes - Page 21

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• It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

  John Lennon

  Uncles, Causes, Ems

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• Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

  John Lennon

  Flower, Yellow, White

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

  John Lennon

  Father, Personality, Chinese

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

  John Lennon

  Rock And Roll, Soul, Touching

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• We're playing those mind games together
  Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
  Playing the mind guerrilla.

  John Lennon

  Games, Insanity, Mind

  "Song: 'Mind Games'". 1973.

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• I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

  John Lennon

  Music, Art, Resentment

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• Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

  John Lennon

  Mother

  Song: Mother, 1970

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• We were cowards when we sacked him.

  John Lennon

  Music, Coward, Music Is

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• Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

  John Lennon

  Dean, Jimmy

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• We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.

  John Lennon

  Army, People, Giving

  "Playboy" Interview with David Sheff, September 1980.

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• My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

  John Lennon

  Music, Ideas, Originals

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• I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

  John Lennon

  Kids, America, Done

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• I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Giving

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• 'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.

  John Lennon

  Music, Style, Done

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• Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Men, Over You

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 263), 2000.

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• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

  John Lennon

  Hero, People, Appreciate

  Playboy interview, January 1981.

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• And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

  John Lennon

  Music, Writing, Noses

  "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2004.

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• We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

  John Lennon

  Winning, Want, Sin

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• Money can't buy me love.

  John Lennon

  Love

  "Song: " Can't Buy Me Love"". 1964.

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• Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

  John Lennon

  Fall, Long, Empathy

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• I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

  John Lennon

  Sex, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.

  John Lennon

  Music, Art, Form

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• I've never really been wanted.

  John Lennon

  Wanted

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• Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Slipping, Bigger

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• I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Writing

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