My role in society, or any artist or poet's role, is to try to express what we all feel.
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Citations by John Lennon
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives.
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When [Yoko and I] got back together, we decided that this is our life. That having a baby was important to us, and that everything else was subsidiary to that, and therefore everything else had to be abandoned. I mean, abandonment gave us the fulfillment we were looking for and the space to breathe.
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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
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Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms, and said, 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time, ' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for. " Right?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that, it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown, then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim'. And once you've learned: swim!
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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Yoko was the only one who didn't put me down through that period, because
a) she knew I was suffering, and
b) she said, 'You didn't kill anyone. You didn't abuse anyone. ' And I thought, Okay, okay, she doesn't mind it, so I'm not going to give a damn whether the reporter likes it or not.
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