The 598+ John Lennon Quotes

As A Child I Did A Lot Of Imaginary Bits, You Know. It Depends On The Individual, I Enjoyed Then Knocking The Nail In, I Enjoy Knocking Nails In Walls To Hang Pictures Up, But I Also Enjoy Thinking 'i'm Gonna Do That' But I Actually Won't Do It, I Enjoy Imagining Doing Things Just As Much.

I Think Middle-class People Have The Biggest Trauma If They Have Nice Imagey Parents, All Smiling And Dolled Up.

To Begin With, Working Class People Reacted Against Our Openness About Sex. They Are Frightened Of Nudity, They're Repressed In That Way As Well As Others. Perhaps They Thought 'paul [mccartney] Is A Good Lad, He Doesn't Make Trouble'.

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.

I Found I Was Having Continually To Please The Sort Of People I'd Always Hated When I Was A Child. This Began To Bring Me Back To Reality.

The Only Reason I Went For That Goal Is That I Wanted To Say: 'now, Mummy-daddy, Will You Love Me?'

Today's Folk Song Is Rock And Roll. Although It Happened To Emanate From America, That's Not Really Important In The End Because We Wrote Our Own Music And That Changed Everything.

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.

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'. Before, Anybody From Liverpool Who Made It, Like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, Had To Lose Their Accent To Get On The Bbc.

Most Of The Songs Came From Europe And Africa And Now They Were Coming Back To Us. Many Of [bob] Dylan's Best Songs Came From Scotland, Ireland Or England. It Was A Sort Of Cultural Exchange.

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.

Some People Say It's A When You Get Older Fans The Kids Don't Like You. It's True.