Latest John Lennon Quotes from Interviews

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• Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

  John Lennon

  Guitar, Typewriters, Water

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• I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Views, Doe

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• I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

  John Lennon

  Children, Thinking, Fire

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• It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

  John Lennon

  People, Boring

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• You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

  John Lennon

  Children, Giving, Too Much

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• When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

  John Lennon

  Talking, Singing, Needs

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• I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

  John Lennon

  Feel Better, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.

  John Lennon

  Army, Wells

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• Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

  John Lennon

  Flower, Yellow, White

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• I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

  John Lennon

  Thinking, Japan, Mind

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• There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

  John Lennon

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• Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

  John Lennon

  Art, Fighting, Men

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• How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

  John Lennon

  Sex, People, Realising

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• It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.

  John Lennon

  Cutting, Long, People

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• The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

  John Lennon

  Important, Males, Way

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• If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

  John Lennon

  Jobs, People, Mind

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• You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

  John Lennon

  School, People, Giving

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• I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.

  John Lennon

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

  John Lennon

  Running, Taken, Factories

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• After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

  John Lennon

  Order, Should Have, Views

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• The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.

  John Lennon

  Real, Abuse, Faces

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• I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

  John Lennon

  School, People, Insulting

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• Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

  John Lennon

  Thinking, Difficult, Workers

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• It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

  John Lennon

  Brother, Trying, Wake Up

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• When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

  John Lennon

  Army, People, Warning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org