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All we are saying is give peace a chance!

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Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis.^ Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis .

• John Lennon - Wikiquote 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
• John Lennon - Wikiquote 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Nothing really affected me until Elvis,” John Lennon would later say.

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^ "Nothing really affected me until Elvis," John later reflected, and this simple statement just about says it all.

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If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

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That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor.

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We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks.^ We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks.

• John Lennon - Wikiquote 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
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^ ANYBODY likes – you’re not special) .

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^ "WE’RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!" Interview on The David Frost Show (14 June 1969) We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks.

• John Lennon - Wikiquote 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
• John Lennon - Wikiquote 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence.

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You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.'^ You're the One .

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^ You're the One 13.

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^ You're The One 13.

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So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.

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We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA.
Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA.
NUTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.^ "NUTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.

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^ "Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA," they said in an advertisement.

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^ All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.

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.NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic.^ NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic.

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^ For no-other reason than the teacher [MADE ME] take a lame-sounding Spanish name, (there is no translation for “Howard”).

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^ George Harrison has said that Paul played his 4001S on the song 'Think For Yourself', but other than that, there's no documentation of his Ric being used on the album.

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.All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.^ Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too, Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

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^ Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace...

• JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]

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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had.^ The thing the sixties did was show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had.

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^ Why do Europeans have to make things out to be the US vs whatever all the freakin time?

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^ JL: Yes, well, the first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'.

• Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]

It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

I really thought that love would save us all.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.

• For our last number, I'd like to ask your help.^ Thank you for your generous contribution.
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  ^ When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?"
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  ^ Your taste for fine clothes is evident and you like to indulge it.
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  .The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands.^ It was Lennon, who, at the Royal Variety Show in 1963, in the presence of numerous members of the British royalty, told the audience, "Those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands.
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  .And the rest of you, just rattle your jewelry.
  • Royal Variety Performance in London (4 November 1963) attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret.^ The rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery."
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    ^ The rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
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    ^ It was Lennon, who, at the Royal Variety Show in 1963, in the presence of numerous members of the British royalty, told the audience, "Those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands.
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    .John had intended to say "fucking jewelry", but was persuaded against doing so by Paul McCartney and the group's manager Brian Epstein.

• There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet ...^ There’s only one and his is name is Jesus!
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  ^ JON WIENER: Well, you know, the Beatles—there was a tension within the Beatles that we only found out about later, where Paul McCartney basically was an entertainer who wanted to sing songs that would delight and thrill people.
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  ^ Synopsis: This documentary examines the solo work of John Lennon and Paul McCartney from 1967-1972.
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  not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. .We can't tell you how we felt.^ When he felt that he'd been slighted by Paul McCartney on the Ram album, responding with "How Do You Sleep" seemed the natural thing to do.
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  We just idolised him so much. ... You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. .Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis.^ Nothing really affected me until Elvis,” John Lennon would later say.
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  ^ "Nothing really affected me until Elvis," John later reflected, and this simple statement just about says it all.
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  .If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.
  • Statement (28 August 1965) after meeting Elvis Presley, as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2005) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p.^ There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake -- including all the Beatles records and all my individual ones.
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    ^ That's debatable, but the music legend who died 28 years ago is about to challenge Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson for the title of richest dead celebrity.
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    ^ By the time “The King” met the Beatles in his Hollywood mansion in August of 1965, he was a virtual prisoner of his own fame.
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    .386; also partly quoted in The Beatles : The Authorized Biography (1968) by Hunter Davies, p.^ "I really think the Queen believes in it all," he said to biographer Hunter Davies, author of The Beatles.
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    ^ Hunter Davies's The Beatles: The Authorized Biography reports John's assertion that, "That was the day, the day that I met Paul, that it started moving."
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    ^ Hunter Davies quotes John as admitting, "I fought all the way through Dovedale.
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• 'One cave she wolf go too farther, and I wolf leaf her' he said to his fave rave horse.^ One day she said to me, "Let's go and get married."
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  ^ But on one tour, I said, "I am going to answer about the war.
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  .Of course the horse didn't answer, because as you know they cannot speak, least of all to a garlic eating, stinking, little yellow greasy fascist bastard catholic Spaniard.^ And, you know, they were spokesmen for the counterculture.
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  ^ They are not proceeding on their genocidal path due to a paternal fondness for you and I, but are proceeding as they are because they think we are pieces of s--- and cattle deserving to be slaughtered.
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  ^ Do we have to do the walking on water again because a whole pile of dummies didn't see it the first time, or didn't believe it when they saw it?
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  .They soon made it up howevans and Jesus and wee Spastic were once morphia unitely in a love that knew no Suzie.^ Once they had made it to the aircraft, "immigration problems" delayed take-off, but in the end everything was sorted out and the distressed party continued on its journey.
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  ^ But as soon as John's mother Julia Lennon heard that Fred had picked up John she knew that something was wrong.
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  ^ He knew he set himself up to be like Jesus and Buddha to people, but he regretted not living up to the persona himself.
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  .The only thing that puzzled Jesus was why his sugarboot got so annoyed when he called her his little Spastic in public.^ I don’t mind being called a flea……an annoying little creature that bugs the s--- out of the dog…(NWO government).
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  ^ I also had a little accordion which I used to play -- only the right hand -- and I played the same things on this that I played on the mouth organ; things like 'Swedish Rhapsody,' 'Moulin Rouge,' and 'Greensleeves.'
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  ^ Listening to "Every Little Thing" reveals John playing not only the 325/12 but also his '58 325.
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  • "A Spaniard In The Works" from A Spaniard In The Works (1965); this has been sometimes been misquoted as if Lennon were speaking specifically about Jesus Christ, when in fact, it is part of the odd narration of an odd story about a Spanish groom named "Jesus El Pifico".

• Christianity will go..^ In 1964, he published a collection of his writings called In His Own Write, which was followed in 1965 by A Spaniard in the Works, and in 1966, he appeared in Dick Lester's comedy How I Won the War.
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  ^ If you look at Lennon’s songs, a lot of them are about what’s going on around them.
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  ^ Today, on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s death, we speak with historian Jon Wiener about Lennon’s politics and his F.B.I. files.
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  It will vanish and shrink. .I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.^ I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
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  ^ I needn't argue about that, I'm right and will be proved right.
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  .We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.^ I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
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  ^ I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
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  ^ We're more popular than Jesus now.
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  .Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.^ Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
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  ^ Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
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  ^ I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right.
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  It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. .
  • One of the most controversial statements Lennon ever made, this was published in England's Evening Standard newspaper (4 March 1966) as part of an interview with writer Maureen Cleave.^ On 4 March 1966 in an interview for the London Evening Standard with Maureen Cleave, who was a friend, Lennon made an off-the-cuff remark regarding religion.
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    ^ On 4 March 1966 in an interview for the London Evening Standard with Maureen Cleave , who was a friend, Lennon made an off-the-cuff remark regarding religion .
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    ^ Although he gave a rather biting interview to Playboy magazine in 1980, he was said by most of his associates to be much easier to work with in that part of his life.
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    .This single quote (taken out of context — Lennon was often misquoted as stating the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus") was to spark protests across the Bible Belt in America.^ But the filmmakers found themselves returning to the subject of Lennons travails in the wake of 9/11, the Iraq War, and the furor that erupted when entertainment figures spoke out in protest.
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    ^ As a leader of the Beatles, John Lennon helped to transform popular music, but to his fans, he was far more than just a musician.
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    ^ When John Lennon remarked in 1966 that the Beatles were then "more popular than Jesus" his comments prompted outrage in the United States.
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    .Beatles records were burned en masse, and the Ku Klux Klan burned a Beatles effigy and nailed Beatles albums to a burning cross.^ Some rumors circulated that this was going to be the cover to the new two-record Beatles album.
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    ^ While he was still a Beatle, Lennon and Ono recorded three albums of experimental and difficult music, Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions, and Wedding Album.
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    ^ A firestorm of protest swelled from the southern U.S. Bible Belt area, as conservative groups publicly burned Beatles records and memorabilia.
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    .The band members were dismissive of this, as they pointed out that first the people had to buy the albums in order to burn them.

• I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it.^ We're more popular than Jesus now.
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  ^ "More popular than Jesus" controversy .
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  ^ We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.
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  I'm sorry I opened my mouth. .I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down.^ I wasn't knocking it or putting it down.
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  .I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here.^ I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here.
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  ^ Right, there's more Yoko songs on here, and they're just as packed with early 80's cliches as before, but the songwriting is even worse.
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  ^ It is more likely true that he was just caught up in the larger movement and had a sense that he was contributing to the solution.
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  .I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is.^ "You know , I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is.
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  ^ I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is.
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  ^ "Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?"
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  .I just said what I said and it was wrong.^ I just said what I said and it was wrong.
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  ^ I just said what I said and it was wrong, or was taken wrong, and now it's all this.
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  Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
  • News conference in Chicago, where he apologised for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. .(11 August 1966)

• We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was.^ On August 11 , 1966 , The Beatles held a press conference in Chicago , in order to address the growing furor.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ On August 11, 1966, The Beatles held a press conference in Chicago, in order to address the growing furor.
  • John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ On August 11, 1966, The Beatles held a press conference in Chicago, Illinois, in order to address the growing furor.
  • John Lennon's grave 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.hollywoodusa.co.uk [Source type: General]
  
  Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft. .
  • Quoted by Hunter Davies in The Beatles (1968)

• That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy.^ You want to know how great that is?
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ We don't have to deny any of our organs, you know.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ You don't know how lucky you are in Canada."
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  .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.^ And we stand a better chance under that guise Because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ John's been shot, screams Yoko.
  • John-Lennon.net - Who Authorized The Assassination Of John Lennon? by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.john-lennon.net [Source type: General]
  
  ^ 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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  • As quoted in BBC interview with David Wigg (8 May 1969)

• What’s Bagism? It’s like... a tag for what we all do, we’re all in a bag ya know, and we realised that we came from two bags, .I was in this pop bag going round and round in my little clique, and she was in her little avant-garde clique going round and round, and you’re in your little tele clique and they’re in their...ya know?^ You never know what you're gonna get!
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  ^ I was in a pop bag, going round and round, in my own little clique.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ You’re entitled to your rant.
  • David Gilmour: The Blog 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.davidgilmourblog.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  and we all sort of come out and look at each other every now and then, but we don’t communicate. .And we all intellectualise about how there is no barrier between art, music, poetry...^ There’s no doubt about it.
  • John Lennon 1940-1980: History Professor Jon Wiener Discusses Lennon's Politics, FBI Files and Why Richard Nixon Sought to Deport Him 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.democracynow.org [Source type: General]
  
  ^ With John there was no in-between.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, No hell below us, above us only sky, Imagine all the people, living for today.
  • John-Lennon.net - Who Authorized The Assassination Of John Lennon? by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.john-lennon.net [Source type: General]
  
  but we’re still all "I’m a rock and roller, he’s a poet" ... so we just came up with the word so you would ask us what bagism is, and we’d say ."WE’RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!"
  • Interview on The David Frost Show (14 June 1969)

• We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks.^ ANYBODY likes – you’re not special) .
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
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  ^ It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence.^ And the only way to change it is to be aware of it.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ For most people the only thing to do was either not to confront him or just to turn the other cheek.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too, Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
  • John-Lennon.net - Who Authorized The Assassination Of John Lennon? by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.john-lennon.net [Source type: General]
  • JohnLennonDay.com - Imagine An International Holiday Honoring John Lennon by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC johnlennonday.com [Source type: General]
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  .Not just war — all forms of violence. People just accept it and think 'Oh, they did it, or Harold Wilson did it, or Nixon did it,' they're always scapegoating people.^ I think they’re apolitical.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ They're all lunatics."
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ We think either people have forgotten or they have grown up by now, so we can make a second foray into that place where she and I are together, making music -- simply that.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  And it isn't Nixon's fault. .We're all responsible for everything that goes on, you know, we're all responsible for Biafra and Hitler and everything.^ You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful.
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  ^ You never know what you're gonna get!
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  ^ This means that you are solely and entirely responsible for the consequences of all Postings that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Site.
  • John Lennon - Imagine | SPIKE 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]
  
  .So we're just saying "SELL PEACE" — anybody interested in peace just stick it in the window.^ JOHN LENNON: I would just like to say it’s an honor and a pleasure to be here at the Apollo and for the reasons we’re all here.
  • John Lennon 1940-1980: History Professor Jon Wiener Discusses Lennon's Politics, FBI Files and Why Richard Nixon Sought to Deport Him 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.democracynow.org [Source type: General]
  
  ^ They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Then there were the weather forecasts: "We're not going to bother with the weather, just look out of the window!
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  .It's simple but it lets somebody else know that you want peace too, because you feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.'^ You want to know how great that is?
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Wouldn't you think it was novel if it were you that was that famous?
  • Perez Hilton: The Vatican Has Forgiven John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ Crabbie, what do you think you know about me?
  • John Lennon's Legacy 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]
  
  .So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.^ "You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ BOLDLY BEFORE THE LORD, (you’re definately not superior, so don’t expect better – get over yourself) .
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ Believe what you want, that is you’re right under the constitution (for as long as that will last).
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .
  • Interview on The David Frost Show (14 June 1969)

• If people take any notice of what we say, we say we’ve been through the drug scene, man, and there’s nothing like being straight.
  • The Dick Cavett Show (24 September 1971)

• All that business was awful, it was a fuckin' humiliation.^ But if people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "Having gone through all of the Beatlemania, the drugs, the Maharishi and so on, I saw him becoming, if anything, a more incomplete person," says Pete Shotton.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that's what I resent.^ One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what The Beatles were, and that's what I resent.
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  .I didn't know, I didn't foresee.^ I didn't know; I didn't foresee.
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  .It happened bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and 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.^ I mean I did it, I didn't know, I didn't foresee; it just happened, bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you and 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.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It happened bit by bit, gradually until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and 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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  ^ You hate to hurt others and prefer to avoid doing or saying anything that will upset the harmony in a relationship.
  • The kozmik horoscope of John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.kozmikhoroscopes.com [Source type: General]
  
  .
  • As quoted in Rolling Stone (7 January 1971) , and requoted in The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith, 1978 ISBN 0094602204

• It's just natural, it's not a great disaster.^ "Looking back on it with John, you know, he was a really great guy," Paul McCartney told Rolling Stone in 1987.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Himself Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (1987) (TV) ....
  • John Lennon (I) 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Himself The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) ....
  • John Lennon (I) 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
  
  .People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth.^ I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. .You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.^ You want to know how great that is?
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Imagine Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, No hell below us, above us only sky, Imagine all the people, living for today.
  • JohnLennonDay.com - Imagine An International Holiday Honoring John Lennon by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC johnlennonday.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ You know the old trick where you put a penny on your forehead and it sticks?
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • Interview on Scene And Heard by David Wigg (25 October 1971)

• We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA.
  Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA.
  NUTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.
  NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic.^ Imagine Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, No hell below us, above us only sky, Imagine all the people, living for today.
  • JohnLennonDay.com - Imagine An International Holiday Honoring John Lennon by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC johnlennonday.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ For most people the only thing to do was either not to confront him or just to turn the other cheek.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too, Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
  • John-Lennon.net - Who Authorized The Assassination Of John Lennon? by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.john-lennon.net [Source type: General]
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  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  
  .All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.^ Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too, Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
  • JohnLennonDay.com - Imagine An International Holiday Honoring John Lennon by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC johnlennonday.com [Source type: General]
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace...
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  
  .As two ambassadors of NUTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.^ Every time another .1% of humanity sign, it will again be sent to the heads and governing bodies of every country and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
  • JohnLennonDay.com - Imagine An International Holiday Honoring John Lennon by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC johnlennonday.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ When .1% of humanity (6.4 million) sign this petition it will be sent to the heads and governing bodies of every country on Earth and the Secretary-General of the United Nations .
  • JohnLennonDay.com - Imagine An International Holiday Honoring John Lennon by Mark R. Elsis 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC johnlennonday.com [Source type: General]
  
  .
  • Declaration of Nutopia, co-signed with Yoko Ono, (1 April 1973); also published in the liner notes of Mind Games (1973)

• The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had.^ The thing the sixties did was show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Mind Games was released in late 1973 to mixed reviews; its title track became a moderate hit.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Lennon rebounded in 1973 with Mind Games, which featured a strong title tune and some vague mumblings about a "conceptual country" called "Nutopia", which satirised his ongoing immigration case.
  • John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
  
  It wasn’t the answer. .It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
  • Interview for KFRC RKO Radio (8 December 1980)

• I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
  • Interview with RKO Radio on the day of his murder (8 December 1980)

• I really thought that love would save us all.
  • As quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer (10 December 1980)

• I've sold my soul to the devil.^ It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ "We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • On the commercial success of the Beatles, as quoted in Lennon (1985) by Ray Coleman

• Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. ...^ Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ LENNON: Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America?
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ In his youth Lennon even made fun of disabled people; running up to them and pulling grotesque, distorted faces.
  • John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
  
  .I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.^ I think were being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think Im liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  .That's what's insane about it.
  • "What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?"^ If you don't know who the Springfield was, you don't know about the anti-establishment movement.
    • John Lennon's Legacy 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]
    
    ^ Here was a guy who was willing to take his entire past up to that moment and just throw it completely out of the window, because he had found what he wanted.
    • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
    
    ^ Now, it may take you 20 or 30 years to appreciate that, but the fact is, if you check those songs out, you will see that it is as good as any fucking stuff that was ever done.
    • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    in .The Beatles Anthology (2000)

• Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
  • As quoted in Sunday Herald Sun [Melbourne, Australia] (13 January 2003)]

• Well, I just want him to grow up happy.^ Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I'll grow up to break up the Beatles!"
  • John Lennon's Legacy 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]
  
  That's the main thing. .
  • Talking about his son, Julian Lennon, in Ticket to Ride : Inside the Beatles' 1964 Tour That Changed the World (2003) by Larry Kane

• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.^ John Lennon If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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  ^ John Lennon "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ LENNON: He said it was written about Julian.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • As quoted in Guitar Player (1 August 2004), and in "Pax Patter" at ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Before Elvis there was nothing.^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC Music) .
  • John Lennon Discography at Discogs 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.discogs.com [Source type: General]
  
  .
  • "Elvis Is Everywhere" in The New York Times (16 August 2007)

• You have to be!^ I'll tell you what ended the war in Vietnam: THE TRUTH. that came in the form of the secret Pentagon Papers, released by Daniel Ellsberg and published by the New York times.
  • John Lennon's Legacy 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Some Time in New York City - Capitol 1972 .
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  ^ The studio sessions, Hit Factory, New York, August-September 1980.
  • John Lennon Bootlegs 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.beatlegmania.com [Source type: General]
  
  (Laughs) You might get shot! .
  • Responding to a reporter question during The Beatles Australian tour of if they were aware of everything going on around them.^ Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko.
    • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
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    ^ Lennon's humour was apparent during The Beatles' first American press conference, immediately after they stepped off their plane in February 1964.
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    ^ ONO: The Beatles themselves were a social phenomenon not that aware of what they were doing.
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• When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed . Either I’m a genius or I’m mad, which is it? ‘No,’ .I said, ‘I can’t be mad because nobody’s put me away; therefore I’m a genius.’ Genius is a form of madness and we’re all that way.^ The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "He'd do this all the time, and it surprised me the way he used to be cruel with Stuart, because I knew how close they were.
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  ^ Christ you know it ain’t easy, You know how hard it can be, The way the things are going, they’re gonna crucify me.” I’m not putting him on a pedestal, but we all watched, and shared his stumbling towards the truth, and light.
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  .But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing.^ He is an egomaniac about everything else about himself, but his bass playing he was always a bit coy about.
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  ^ She would tune Rod Davis's banjo and John's guitar similarly, with the result that John would play banjo chords using just the top four strings of his guitar.
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  ^ I also had a little accordion which I used to play -- only the right hand -- and I played the same things on this that I played on the mouth organ; things like 'Swedish Rhapsody,' 'Moulin Rouge,' and 'Greensleeves.'
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  .But if there’s such a thing as genius – I am one.^ I'm not pushing Buddhism, because I'm no more a Buddhist than I am a Christian, but there's one thing I admire about the religion: There's no proselytizing.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ On the one hand, this meant doing positive things such as traveling to places as far afield as Hong Kong or South Africa.
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  .And if there isn’t, I don’t care.^ Why don’t you American’s let every Mexican cross the border and set up shop if there isn’t a population problem now?
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  • John Lennon interview with Rolling Stone magazine ( December 1970)

• I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.

Closing line of the Beatles' rooftop concert on January 30, 1969. This was also the last line of the Let It Be film and the album version of "Get Back"

Playboy interview (1980)

Interview with David Sheff (September 1980), published (posthumously) in Playboy (January 1981)

It can never be again!

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

• It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over.^ LENNON: Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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  ^ Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over.
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  ^ I think everything that comes out of a song -- even Paul's songs now, which are apparently about nothing -- shows something about yourself.
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  .But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out.^ But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out.
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  .Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan — we're all relatively young people.^ Elton John, Bob Dylan -- we're all relatively young people.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The Vietnam War mobilized a generation of young people to take a stand opposing US government policy, but few pop stars joined them antiwar protest was something for folkies like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.
  • John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ I'm not interested, no more than I am in what Elton John or Bob Dylan is doing.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  The game isn't over yet. .Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert — but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.^ Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert -- but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ During his last two years as a member of The Beatles, Lennon spent much of his time with Ono partaking in public protests against the Vietnam War.
  • John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake -- including all the Beatles records and all my individual ones.
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  I'm not judging whether "I Am The Walrus" is better or worse than "Imagine." It is for others to judge. I am doing it. I do. .I don't stand back and judge — I do.
  • On talk of a Beatles re-union

• I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically.^ We are talking about my child!"
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
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  ^ I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically.
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  .That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday.^ That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. .You know I don't believe in yesterday.^ I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I don't follow Wings, you know.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ You know I don't believe in yesterday.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I am only interested in what I am doing now.

• Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America?^ LENNON: Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America?
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  ^ I am only interested in what I am doing now.
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  ^ They appreciated the fact that people were still interested in what they were doing, and thanked those who respected the privacy that they felt they needed at this point.
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  .You know, America has poured billions into places like that.^ You know, America has poured billions into places like that.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Well, I was always like that, you know.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Because you're not getting it," well, it was like being sent into the desert.
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  .It doesn't mean a damn thing.^ It doesn't mean a damn thing.
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  ^ And he's talented too, and intelligent, and has a level of professionalism, but that doesn't mean I have to like every little grubbing thing he throws at us.
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  .After they've eaten that meal, then what?^ After they've eaten that meal, then what?
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .It lasts for only a day.^ It lasts for only a day.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? .It goes round and round in circles.^ It goes round and round in circles.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .You can pour money in forever.^ You can pour money in forever.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain.^ After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain.
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  .There is no one concert.^ There is no one concert.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I'm not pushing Buddhism, because I'm no more a Buddhist than I am a Christian, but there's one thing I admire about the religion: There's no proselytizing.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ This infuriated Lennon, who rallied around his new partner and said publicly that there was no John and Yoko, but that they were one person, "JohnAndYoko."
  • John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
  
  .We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it.^ We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ RB: Of course we all live in an imperialist country that is exploiting the Third World, and even our culture is involved in this.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one."
  • The US VS John Lennon Preview and Synopsis With John Lennon Timeline 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  Not in this lifetime, anyway. .
  • Responding to suggestion that the Beatles should reunite to perform benefit concerts.

• Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
  • About the song "I'm a Loser"; sometimes misquoted as "Half of me thinks I am a loser, the other half thinks I am God Almighty."

• I've had cocaine, but I don't like it.^ LENNON: Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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  ^ Part of me suspects that Im a loser, and the other part of me thinks Im God Almighty.
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  ^ I think everything that comes out of a song -- even Paul's songs now, which are apparently about nothing -- shows something about yourself.
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  .The Beatles had lots of it in their day, but it's a dumb drug, because you have to have another one 20 minutes later.^ The Beatles had lots of it in their day, but it's a dumb drug, because you have to have another one 20 minutes later.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ And I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now'--that was another one.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Lennon said: "One of the main reasons The Beatles ended is because...
  • John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
  
  .Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix.^ Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Really, I find caffeine is easier to deal with.^ Really, I find caffeine is easier to deal with.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ... .A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something.^ A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Why should I go back ten years to provide an illusion for you that I know does not exist?
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ You’ve exposed yourself as an evil person masquerading as an angel of light, and your foul language in degrading others is not something the Jesus I know would do.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .You don't hear about it anymore, but people are still visiting the cosmos.^ I don't feel that much about it anymore.
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  ^ You don't hear about it anymore, but people are still visiting the cosmos.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It happened bit by bit, gradually until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and 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.
  • *�*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | October 9 |Leif Ericson Day Vinland Feast day of St Denys Denis Dionysius Paris John LennonTemple of Apollo 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.wilsonsalmanac.com [Source type: General]
  
  .We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.^ We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Lennon wrote later "I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days."
  • John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
  
  ... .They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.^ They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ And today the people who were singing "Give Peace a Chance" in 1969 can be glad they sang it.
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  ^ JL: Because, when it comes to the nitty-gritty, they won't let the people have any power; they'll give all the rights to perform and to dance for them, but no real power...
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform.

• In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement.^ It was the only way that John wanted to work.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ LENNON: In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
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  ^ Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.^ Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people--you know what they like is Engelbert Humperdinck.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ It was all based on this illusion, that you can create violence and overthrow what is, and get communism or get some right-wing lunatic or a left-wing lunatic.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  .That meant I think people should get their false teeth and their health looked after, all the rest of it.^ That meant I think people should get their false teeth and their health looked after, all the rest of it.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ And I am singing about when I was so much younger and all the rest, looking back at how easy it was."
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ I think you’re losing track of all the bulls--- you continue to spout off at people.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .But apart from that, I worked for money and I wanted to be rich.^ But apart from that, I worked for money and I wanted to be rich.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
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  .So what the hell — if that's a paradox, then I'm a socialist.^ So what the hell -- if that's a paradox, then I'm a socialist.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
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  But I am not anything. .What I used to be is guilty about money.^ What I used to be is guilty about money.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
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  ^ I used to think that money was obscene, that the artists didn't have to think about money.
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  .That's why I lost it, either by giving it away or by allowing myself to be screwed by so-called managers.

• What would you suggest I do?^ That's why I lost it, either by giving it away or by allowing myself to be screwed by so-called managers.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
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  ^ LENNON: What would you suggest I do?
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  ^ If you did not feal pain you would not remove your hand away from the source of heat.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .Give everything away and walk the streets?^ Give everything away and walk the streets?
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  .The Buddhist says, "Get rid of the possessions of the mind."^ The Buddhist says, "Get rid of the possessions of the mind."
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Walking away from all the money would not accomplish that.^ Walking away from all the money would not accomplish that.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Because of my attitude, all the other boys' parents, including Paul's father, would say, "Keep away from him."
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "He just looked at it and walked away, but he knew why I had done it, all right.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  It's like the Beatles. .I couldn't walk away from the Beatles.^ I couldn't walk away from the Beatles.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .That's one possession that's still tagging along, right?

• It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around that was influencing the way I thought and the way I lived. It had a lot to do with Yoko, showing me that I was still possessed.^ It had a lot to do with Yoko, showing me that I was still possessed.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ That's one possession that's still tagging along, right?
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ LENNON: It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around that was influencing the way I thought and the way I lived.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I left physically when I fell in love with Yoko, but mentally it took the last ten years of struggling.^ I left physically when I fell in love with Yoko, but mentally it took the last ten years of struggling.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ In 1944 two years after her separation she met a young military man with whom she fell in love.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ The quintessential Our Love Against the World poster child who left his wife for almost two years to gallavant with another woman in L.A..
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  I learned everything from her. ... .It is a teacher-pupil relationship.^ LENNON: It is a teacher-pupil relationship.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ John Lennon "With us it's a teacher - pupil relationship.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ PLAYBOY: You make it sound like a teacher-pupil relationship.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .That's what people don't understand.^ That's what people don't understand.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  She's the teacher and I'm the pupil. .I'm the famous one, the one who's supposed to know everything, but she's my teacher.^ I'm the famous one, the one who's supposed to know everything, but she's my teacher.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .She's taught me everything I fucking know.^ She's taught me everything I fucking know.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ But she taught me everything I fucking know."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .She's my Don Juan ...^ She's my Don Juan [a reference to Carlos Castaneda's Yaqui Indian teacher].
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  a .Don Juan doesn't have a following.^ LENNON: No, a Don Juan doesn't have a following.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Don Juan doesn't have to laugh; Don Juan doesn't have to be charming; Don Juan just is.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ A Don Juan isn't in the newspaper and doesn't have disciples and doesn't proselytize.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .A Don Juan isn't in the newspaper and doesn't have disciples and doesn't proselytize.

• We never made love in a bag.^ A Don Juan isn't in the newspaper and doesn't have disciples and doesn't proselytize.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ ONO: We never made love in a bag.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ LENNON: No, a Don Juan doesn't have a following.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .People probably imagined that we were making love.^ People probably imagined that we were making love.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know.^ "Do you know what you've just done?"
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ I just thought it was unsubtle, you know.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "And he said, 'Well, I'm just showing you guys where it is, because you'll want to know where it is later.'
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  .The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know.^ You want to know how great that is?
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ He always said, “If you get violent, you will play into their hands because they will know how to deal with that, they don’t know how to deal with non-violence.” God bless you John.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ With regard to his assassination (he did not name the person) he said that nobody knows what its like to be mobbed by people every time you walk out your door.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .But, inside, there might be a lot going on.^ But, inside, there might be a lot going on.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Or maybe nothing's going on.

• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.^ It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Or maybe nothing's going on.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Once I found the woman, the boys became of no interest whatsoever, other than they were like old school friends."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  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.^ Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison -- it's garbage to me.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .I worship the people who survive.^ I worship the people who survive.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ If there is a God, I wonder if he’s/she’s, it’s whatever, is pissed about the kinds of people who worship it and how they go about doing it?!
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

• Part of me thinks I'm a loser and part of me thinks I am God-Almighty.
  • On the song "I'm a Loser"

• I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." .He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song.^ I didn't have to write songs at 15.
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  ^ I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ I didn't want to write it, I was just slightly irritable and I went downstairs and I couldn't get to sleep until I put in on paper, and then I went to sleep.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."
  • On the song "Yesterday", written by Paul McCartney

Lyrics

.

You say you want a revolution,
Well, you know, we all want to change the world...^ You want to know how great that is?

• Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]

^ That is the danger of saying anything, you know.

• John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]

^ "You say you want a revolution Well, you know, we all want to change the world" .

• Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]

But when you talk about destruction,
Don't you know that you can count me out.

.

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.^ When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?"

• John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]

^ PLAYBOY: Whatever your politics, you've played the capitalist game very well, parlaying your Beatles royalties into real estate, livestock---- .

• John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I think in the end it is easy to say stuff… very different to implement when you are in politics.

• David Gilmour: The Blog 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.davidgilmourblog.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.All you need is love.^ Peace ‘n’ Love to you all ~ Gabrielle .

• David Gilmour: The Blog 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.davidgilmourblog.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ I mean last year was "all you need is Love."

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^ I mean last year was 'all you need is love.'

• JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]

.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.^ Misunderstanding all you see."

• John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

• Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]

^ Mimi told Lennon frequently "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it."

• John Lennon biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links, and products (music: Beatles) 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]

.It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.^ "I was just hanging out with guys, and all we were doing was getting drunk and waking up," John told Bob Harris.

• Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]

^ So in all, a very troubling, contradictory, obtuse, at times infuriating guy with a totally uneven body of work, but "when it's good, it's really good" (to quote "It's so hard").

• John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]

.It doesn't matter much to me.^ It doesn't matter much to me.

• Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]

Christ, you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going,
they're going to crucify me.

.

We're only trying to get us some peace.

• Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.^ The only hope for us is peace.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
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  ^ Worse still, she not only tried to join in on some of the songs, but -- horror of horrors -- dared to offer her own musical suggestions.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ Wait, I know…I’ll play some pretty, insightful music…”Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try….Lalalalala!
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .
  • "I Am The Walrus"

• You say you want a revolution,
  Well, you know, we all want to change the world...^ You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out?
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ You want to know how great that is?
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ That is the danger of saying anything, you know.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  
  .But when you talk about destruction,
  Don't you know that you can count me out.
  • "Revolution" (Single version)
  • Variant: You say you want a revolution,
    Well, you know, we all want to change the world...^ You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out?
    • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ You want to know how great that is?
    • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
    
    ^ There was all this "But you don't know anything about law; I can't talk to you."
    • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    
    .But when you talk about destruction,
    Don't you know that you can count me out — in.^ You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out?
    • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ There was all this "But you don't know anything about law; I can't talk to you."
    • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ What are you talking about Alex?
    • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
    
    
    • "Revolution 1" - The Beatles [White Album] version (in this recorded performance of the song, Lennon interjects "in", after saying "count me out").

• 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.^ Peace ‘n’ Love to you all ~ Gabrielle .

  • David Gilmour: The Blog 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.davidgilmourblog.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

  
  ^ I mean last year was "all you need is Love."

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  ^ I mean last year was 'all you need is love.'

  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]

  
  
  .
  • "All You Need Is Love"

• There are places I remember
  All my life though some have changed
  Some forever not for better
  Some have gone and some remain
  • "In my life"

• These memories lose their meaning
  When I think of love as something new.^ I was different all my life.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ That's all, but damn it if that's all you ever need here.
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  ^ I don’t need some invisible dude to do my thinking for me.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  
  • "In my life"

• The Walrus was Paul!
  • "Glass Onion"

• All we are saying is give peace a chance!
  • "Give Peace a Chance"

• For the benefit of Mr. Kite
  there will be a show tonight on trampoline.
  • "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (1967)

• Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
  .It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.^ "I was just hanging out with guys, and all we were doing was getting drunk and waking up," John told Bob Harris.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ So in all, a very troubling, contradictory, obtuse, at times infuriating guy with a totally uneven body of work, but "when it's good, it's really good" (to quote "It's so hard").
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  
  .It doesn't matter much to me.^ It doesn't matter much to me.
  • Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
  
  
  .Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.^ Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields, Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.

  • Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]

  
  ^ Near that home was Strawberry Fields, a house near a boys' reformatory where I used to go to garden parties as a kid with my friends Nigel and Pete.

  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]

  
  ^ So you always have to take the chance: 'Am I going to lose my man?'

  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]

  
  
  .Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.^ John would reply: "It's nothing to get hung about."

  • Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]

  
  ^ Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields, Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.

  • Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]

  
  ^ "Nothing really affected me until Elvis," John later reflected, and this simple statement just about says it all.

  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]

  
  
  .Strawberry Fields forever.^ Strawberry Fields Forever (60's cartoon) .

  • Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]

  
  ^ Strawberry Fields forever.

  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]

  
  ^ Strawberry fields forever Strawberry fields forever Strawberry fields forever .

  • Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]

  
  
  .
  • "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967)

• Half of what I say is meaningless
  But I say it just to reach you
  Julia.^ Strawberry Fields forever.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Richard Buskin The mosaic centerpiece of the Strawberry Fields section of New York's Central Park says it all.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ When youre drowning, you dont say I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me, you just scream.
  • A John Lennon Tribute - John Lennon's history and early years 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC beatlesnumber9.com [Source type: General]
  
  .
  • "Julia" on The Beatles (1968)

• When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.^ This last number, in fact, also contained two other revealing lines: "Ocean child, calls me" was a reference to Yoko, whose name means ocean child in Japanese; and the self-explanatory, "When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind."
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  .
  • "Julia" (1968)

• You say you want a Revolution; you better get it on right away.
  • "Power to the People"

• Christ, you know it ain't easy
  You know how hard it can be.^ You want to know how great that is?
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ You know, right in front of their eyes.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "Say we want a revolution We better get it on right away Well you get on your feet And into the street" .
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  
  The way things are going,
  they're going to crucify me.
  • "Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969)

• The newspapers said,
  "Say, what you're doing in bed?"
  I said "We're only trying to get us some peace."
  • "Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969), referring to his "bed-in" honeymoon of March 1969.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

.

I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn...

• Mother, you had me, but I never had you.
  • "Mother"

• They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool.
  • "Working Class Hero"

• They keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
  And you think you're so clever, and classless and free,
  But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.^ I never see Ron Jeremy on TV. What channels do you watch?
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ I think they’re apolitical.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ It happened bit by bit, gradually until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and 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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  .
  • "Working Class Hero"

• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
  • "God"

• I don't believe in Elvis
  I don't believe in Zimmerman
  I don't believe in Beatles.^ God is a Concept by which we measure our pain I’ll say it again God is a Concept by which we measure our pain I don’t believe in magic I don’t believe in I-ching I don’t believe in Bible I don’t believe in Tarot I don’t believe in Hitler I don’t believe in Jesus I don’t believe in Kennedy I don’t believe in Buddha I don’t believe in Mantra I don’t believe in Gita I don’t believe in Yoga I don’t believe in Kings I don’t believe in Elvis I don’t believe in Zimmerman I don’t believe in Beatles I just believe in me…and that reality .
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ RB: That's a pretty cool idea--the Working Class becomes its own Hero.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I don't believe in John Lennon, Beatle, being any different from anyone else, because I know he's not ...
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  
  .I just believe in me
  Yoko and me
  And that's reality.
  • "God"

• I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn
  I was the Walrus, but now I'm John
  And so dear friends, you'll just have to carry on
  The dream is over.^ But 'John John' is just sad, really sad.
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  ^ The Living God isn’t a lie, (you just want to believe a lie).
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ And so dear friends, you'll just have to carry on.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  
  • "God"

Imagine (1971)

Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

.

You may say I'm a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

• Imagine there's no heaven,
  It's easy if you try,
  No hell below us,
  Above us only sky,
  Imagine all the people
  living for today...^ There is a Heaven, and there is a Hell.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ No, just “Imagine” no hell beneath us, above us only sky.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ Imagine there was no Religion” he sung.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .
  • "Imagine

• Imagine there's no countries,
  It isnt hard to do,
  Nothing to kill or die for,
  No religion too,
  Imagine all the people
  living life in peace...^ Imagine there was no Religion” he sung.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too, Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Imagine all the people sharing all the world.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  
  .You may say I'm a dreamer,
  but I'm not the only one,
  I hope some day you'll join us,
  And the world will be as one.^ The only hope for us is peace.

  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]

  
  ^ You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]

  
  ^ You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one .

  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]

  
  
  .
  • "Imagine"

• Imagine no possessions
  I wonder if you can
  • "Imagine"

• How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?^ You want to know how great that is?
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ You don't know how lucky you are in Canada."
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ You know, just give me a ring."
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  
  • "How?"

Double Fantasy (1980)

.

I love you
Now and forever.

• Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
  • "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"; similar expressions were used by others prior to Lennon's use of this line, and have been attributed to Betty Talmadge, Thomas La Mance, Margarate Millar, William Gaddis, and Lily Tomlin, but the earliest known published occurrence was the 1957 attribution of "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." to Allen Saunders in Reader's Digest, according to The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes

• There are no problems, only solutions.
  • "Watching the Wheels"

• I know you understand the little child inside of your man.^ But if you are going to make money, you have to make it with love.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ JL: Great, but there's a problem about that here you know.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ You've got enough money, now that you're Mrs. Lennon."
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • "Woman"

• Woman, please let me explain
  I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain
  So let me tell you again and again and again...^ That actually tells me a lot about you, ACOOK. If you have never heard "For What Its Worth", I suggest you start there.
  • John Lennon's Legacy 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ I would let him in, but finally I said to him, "Please call before you come over.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I seen religion from Jesus to Paul, Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, No one can harm you, feel your own pain."
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  
  I love you
  Now and forever.
  • "Woman"

Misattributed

• 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.^ As to whether a song can save a life or a protest stop a war, the binary, limited perceptions see only yes or no.
  • John Lennon's Legacy 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ This was not only in order to make lunchtime rehearsal sessions at the art college, but also so that he and John could go back to the McCartney home in Allerton.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ ONO: That he was intelligent enough to know this was the only way that we could save our marriage, not because we didn't love each other but because it was getting too much for me.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  
  • Quoted as a 1968 statement of Lennon's in Sunday Tasmanian (29 September 1996), and in The Rough Guide to the Beatles (2003) by Chris Ingham, p. 271, this actually derives from a statement which Lennon perhaps had been quoting:

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

• José Ortega y Gasset, in "Art a Thing of No Consequence" in The Dehumanization of Art (1925)

Quotes about Lennon

.

• John Lennon has been my idol all my life but he's dead wrong about revolution...^ I was different all my life.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ LENNON: It was the first song I wrote that was consciously about my life.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ LENNON: Least of all my own.
  • John-Lennon.com - 1980 Playboy Interview With John Lennon And Yoko Ono by David Sheff 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC www.john-lennon.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  find a representative of gluttony or oppression and blow the motherfuckers head off. .
  • Kurt Cobain, quoted in Journals (2002)

• He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
  Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
  But now it all looks strange, it's funny how one insect
  Can damage so much grain.^ For all you folks out there who think I'm having the wool pulled over my eyes, well, that's an insult to me.
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ John Lennon's 1971 single Power to the People grew out of the activism stage of his career.
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ And I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now'--that was another one.
  • Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .
  • Elton John, in the song "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) (1982)

• I definitely did look up to John.^ [John looks up] Thank you, thank you, thank you."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Ono didn't break up the band, John did.
  • John Lennon - Imagine | SPIKE 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ You can look up the CIA’s program named cointelpro and on the list of people and groups to get rid of is John Lennon along with many civil rights groups .
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .We all looked up to John.^ [John looks up] Thank you, thank you, thank you."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I have trouble coming up with even one thread running through all of John Lennon's professional career that can be followed.
  • John Lennon 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.capnmusic.org [Source type: General]
  
  ^ That was half the beauty of it all: Someone had stood up to John and said 'No' to him!"
  • Howstuffworks "How John Lennon Works" 14 January 2010 8:21 UTC entertainment.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]
  
  .He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest and all that kind of thing.^ He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest and all that kind of thing."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties."
  • JOHN LENNON COMES TO VISIT FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.greatdreams.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Whereas the Living God, does KNOW EVERYTHING, He hasn’t ever EXPERIENCED very much at all.
  • John Lennon On the Myth of Over-population 28 January 2010 0:11 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  
  • Paul McCartney, quoted in Playboy Magazine (1984)

External links

Wikipedia has an article about:

John Lennon

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John Lennon

• Official John Lennon website
• Official website of the "Liverpool Lennons" - John, Cynthia & Julian
• BBC Lennon Site
• John Lennon at the Internet Movie Database
• John Lennon as an artist
• Lennon FBI files
• "Man of the Decade" interview transcript
• "Power to the People: The Lost John Lennon Interview" by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn
• Absolute Elsewhere: The Spirit of John Lennon
• Radio Dial Scan of the night Lennon died
• British TV's reaction to the death of John Lennon
• The US Versus John Lennon
• John Lennon's Will, 12 November, 1979
• Roy Kerwood's Montreal Bed In Site May 1969 (Rehersal Photo above)
• Accordion Beatles A different take on Beatles classics
• Strawberry Fields Station
• John Lennon Discography
• John Lennon Photos Montreal 1969 Bed In For Peace and Yoko Ono
• Rare Beatles
• Bagism
• Royal Varytie Performance
• Imagine Peace Tower
• John Lennon & Yoko Ono: WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)

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