What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that. John Lennon More Quotes by John Lennon More Quotes From John Lennon I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams. John Lennon cocoons chance dream Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. John Lennon sleep writing song If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim! John Lennon music messages swim We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along. John Lennon writing years thinking He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know. John Lennon coffee party class The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority. John Lennon males important way Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it. John Lennon music Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care. John Lennon mad guitar inspirational Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes. John Lennon religious bye talking When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers. John Lennon army warning people How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes. John Lennon realising sex people The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all. John Lennon band music made I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind John Lennon peace-of-mind mind giving Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care. John Lennon special justice peace Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away. John Lennon coping-mechanisms giving peace Life doesn't imitate art...it is art! John Lennon art Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone. John Lennon music done sound Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group. John Lennon ballet voice people The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people. John Lennon wall mean people I believe in everything until it's disproved. John Lennon happiness love life
