Quotes by John Lennon

John Lennon

John Lennon

British musician

Lived from: 1940 - 1980

Category: Music Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 9 october 1940 Died: 8 december 1980

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  • Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
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  • Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
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  • My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
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  • Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. 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. That's what's insane about it.
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  • Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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  • Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
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  • The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
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  • The more I see the less I know for sure.
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  • The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
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  • The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
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  • The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
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  • There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
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  • Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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  • We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
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  • We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
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  • We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
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  • When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
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  • Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
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  • You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
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  • You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
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