I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40. John Lennon More Quotes by John Lennon More Quotes From John Lennon I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music. John Lennon music years thinking Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it. John Lennon car cinema jesus At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.' John Lennon divorce music thinking Love is a promise; love is a souvenir. John Lennon souvenirs love-is promise Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity. John Lennon boredom insecurity jobs 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 blame pain insane It's Wierd not to be Wierd. John Lennon Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon life-happens plans happens I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. John Lennon feds damn speak There is no problem only solutions John Lennon no-problem solutions problem Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what. John Lennon names together writing I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home. John Lennon used home thinking Your inside is out and your outside is in. John Lennon You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy. John Lennon records stones way People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom. John Lennon fun kids people Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion. John Lennon twilight dream war There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine? John Lennon want numbers hands Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves? John Lennon earth giving years I once was the walrus, now I'm John. John Lennon walrus Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day! John Lennon hours youth thinking
