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John Lennon [1940-1980] English

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Musician, Singer-songwriter

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated songwriting partnership.

Peace, Love, Life, Society, God, Great, Hope, Music, Art, Chance, Change, Dreams, Imagination, Relationship, Respect, Time, War, Women

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.	Love, Relationship	101
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.	Hope, Life, Peace	102
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.	Love	103
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.	Life	104
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.	Time	105
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.	Change, Life	106
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.	Great, Women	107
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.	God	108
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.	Peace	109
The more I see the less I know for sure.		110
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!		111
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.	Love, Peace	112
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.	Love, Peace	113
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.	Love	114
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.	War	115
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.	Great	116
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?	Dreams	117
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.	Imagination	118
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.		119
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.		120
All we are saying is give peace a chance.	Chance, Peace	121
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.		122
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.	Peace	123
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.		124
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.	Society	125
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and 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.	Society	126
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.	Music	201
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?		202
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.		203
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.	God, Hope	204
I believe time wounds all heels.		205
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.	Art, Music, Respect	206
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.		207
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.		208
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.		209
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.		210
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.		211
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.		212
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.		213
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.		214
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.		215
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.		216
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.		217
All you need is love.		218
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.		219
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.		220
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.		221
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.		222
Everything is clearer when you're in love.	Love	223
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.	Peace	224
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.		225
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.		226
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?	Society	301
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.		302
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!		303

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