John Lennon

John Lennon

Musician, Activist

John Lennon was a British musician and peace activist, best known as a member of The Beatles and for his influential solo work promoting love and harmony.

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Born
October 9, 1940
Died
December 8, 1980
Quotes
624
Rank
#96

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"It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like."

Love Beautiful Baby
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"I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too."

Kids America Done
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"We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win."

Winning Want Sin
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"So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?"

Dream Long Ago Long
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"Getting out of one car and getting into another"

Car
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"I've got used to the fact -​ just about -​ that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling."

Dancing Ballet Would Be
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"It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. 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. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo."

Hero People Appreciate
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"And, because my role in society - or any artist or poet's role - is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to...they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. … If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that - they're reflections of society... Mirrors."

Jobs Taken Artist
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"The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time."

Eye Marijuana Smoking
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"All this bit about angels and all the different religions, it's based on something. I think anything's possible. I believe in everything until it's disproved."

Believe Angel Thinking
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"Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed."

Dean Jimmy
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"A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records."

Music Together Again Interesting
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"Mother, you had me, but I never had you."

Mother
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"Sitting on a cornflake, Waiting for the van to come..."

Waiting Sitting Vans
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"I've never really been wanted."

Wanted
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"You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other."

Inspirational Motivational Dog
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"'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it."

Music Style Done
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