I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane. John Lennon More Quotes by John Lennon More Quotes From John Lennon 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 nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough. John Lennon beautiful baby children We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out. John Lennon music girl strong I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage. John Lennon feel-better ideas thinking Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture. John Lennon flower white yellow I always read the papers, the political bits. John Lennon papers political paper I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision. John Lennon japan mind thinking The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us. John Lennon kids america jesus It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it's pretty hard to break out of that, to say 'Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.' John Lennon girl real kings After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent. John Lennon accents scene You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing. John Lennon too-much giving children I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it. John Lennon fire children thinking Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together. John Lennon impact together people In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure. John Lennon style communism father We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear. John Lennon should young trying That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit. John Lennon stars hero class I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere. John Lennon police army hate In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around. John Lennon writing book school We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did. John Lennon war america thinking 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. John Lennon revolution song two I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment. John Lennon pain religious heart
