John Lennon Quotes

624 quotes · Musician, Activist

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John Lennon Quotes

All Love Funny Angry Philosophical Spiritual 624 quotes · page 30 of 50

Musician, Activist

“When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.”

Records Humble Albums

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John Lennon

Musician, Activist

Angry

“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.”

Children Hate Teenage

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Funny

“Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.”

Men Should Have Kicking

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Wise

“Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.”

Music Music Is

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Calm

“Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.”

Sleep Shakes

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Angry

“The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.”

Art School Drug

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Love

“When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?”

Mean Rocks Being In Love

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Adventurous

“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.”

Cities Crazy San Francisco

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Motivated

“There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy. Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy.”

Play Song Games

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Calm

“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.”

Waiting Rain Garden

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Vulnerable

“I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.”

Pain Insane Blame

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Vulnerable

“I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.”

Jesus Religious Sorry

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