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.

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

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"We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco."

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"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

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"The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them."

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"We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create"

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"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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"Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it."

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"We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?"

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"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."

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"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

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"The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people."

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"paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness"

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