John Lennon Quotes — Page 27

Musician, Activist

Melancholic

“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.”

Dream Chance Cocoons

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John Lennon

Musician, Activist

Funny

“It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.”

People Boring

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Sad

“Nothing really affected me until Elvis.”

Affection Affected

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Melancholic

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

Happened Sixty

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Creative

“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.”

Long Pieces One Piece

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Spiritual

“When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.”

Years Careers Education

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Funny

“He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.”

Party Class Coffee

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Spiritual

“I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.”

Records Listening Enjoy

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Philosophical

“There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.”

Believe Art Tag

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Calm

“The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.”

World Worry Spinning

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Funny

“Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.”

Religious Talking Bye

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Funny

“I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.”

Girl Boys Dirty

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