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John Lennon Inspirational Quotes (359)

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You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.
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That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.
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Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
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It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.
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Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.
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I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)
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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... All you need is love.
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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom Let it be.
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Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
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I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
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The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.
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It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.
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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.
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I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
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I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.
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As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.
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If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.
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Whatever gets you through the night
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I believe time wounds all heels.
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Get back to where you once belonged.
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The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.
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