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If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

John Lennon

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John Lennon
Age: 40 †
Born: 1940
Born: October 9
Died: 1980
Died: December 8
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Guitarist
Musician
Painter
Peace Activist
Pianist
Poet
Political Activist
Prosaist
City of Liverpool
John Winston Ono Lennon
John Winston Lennon
Lennon John
John Ono Lennon
Unexpected
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I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.
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I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
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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?
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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
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A working class hero is something to be.
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I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind
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I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing - and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said - the basic things he laid down about love and goodness - and not what people say he said.
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That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.
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The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.
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You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
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Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!
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Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can.
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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.
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There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
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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 cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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I want it to sound like an orange.
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