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Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
John Lennon
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John Lennon
Age: 40 †
Born: 1940
Born: October 9
Died: 1980
Died: December 8
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We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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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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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.
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You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.
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One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
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One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.
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I've got used to the fact - just about - that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling.
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They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
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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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