Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
![“I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always…” quote by John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/53b/john-lennon-322_class_i-mean-we-the-beatles-had-to-go-through_2183945.jpg)
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