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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

John Lennon

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John Lennon
Age: 40 †
Born: 1940
Born: October 9
Died: 1980
Died: December 8
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Peace Activist
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City of Liverpool
John Winston Ono Lennon
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The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
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We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?
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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.
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Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
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Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.
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A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.
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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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The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
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We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
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There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
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Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
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The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.
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You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.
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Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow.
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I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.
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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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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.
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As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.
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