John Lennon Quotes?
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"Never Could See Any Other Way...Never Could See Any Other Way...Never Could See Any Other Way"
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Since John primarily wrote "A Day In The Life," I found this in memory of Tara Browne:
A beautiful man. RIP Tara.â¤ï¸ *My great great grandfather has the same double headed Eagle on his grave. I hope to go to Ireland one day.ð?? -
Can't get head in the head shop Your jeans are full of crap You're full of beans, you're in your teens You lost your mama's road map...
The Tara Browne link was quite moving, as well. I used to wonder if it was just some random news item John had read about someone he didn't know--as most of us do every day...oh boy. -
Satire NOUN 1.the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. synonyms: mockery ? ridicule ? derision ? scorn ? caricature Lennon Was Certainly Known For Satire... His "Gimme Some Truth" and "Crippled Inside" songs, were good examples as well.
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"All we are saying is, 'This is what is happening to us.' We are sending postcards. I don't let it become 'I am the awakened; you are sheep that will be shown the way.' That is the danger of saying anything, you know." -- Playboy, 1981 "They can take anything apart. I mean, I hit it on all levels, you know. We write lyrics, and I write lyrics that you don't realize what they mean till after." -- Rolling Stone, 1968, when asked about "philosophical analyses" of "Strawberry Fields Forever" "Conflict also stems from recognizing the difference between the real and the apparent, the truth about men and the illusions about men, the facts of society and the myths of society. This dualism is of course not limited to satirists or to abnormal personalities. Every sensitive human being, every honest self-analyst, every intelligent adult recognizes the presence of these conflicts. But most human beings learn to accept these conflicts as an inevitable condition of life." -- Leonard Feinberg, The Satirist
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"It's Heaven And Hell Everyday" ~ //oo\\
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"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." "Make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you." "This is ex-Beatle, John Lennon. I've been wanting to write you, but I guess I didn't really want to face reality. I never do this, this is why I take drugs. Reality frightens me and paranoids me. True, I have a lot of money... but basically, I'm afraid to face the problems of life. Let me begin to say, I regret that I said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. I don't even like myself anymore -- guilt. My Cousin, Marilyn McCabe has tried to help me. She told me you were praying for me. ... I want happiness. I don't want to keep up with drugs... Explain to me what Christianity can do for me. Is it phoney? Can He love me? I want out of Hell. I am, I hate to say, under the influence of pills now. I can't stop. I only wish I could thank you for caring." - John Lennon, Letter to Oral Roberts in 1972, as quoted in Oral Roberts : An American Life? (1985) by David Edwin
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I had read about the chords of Because being Moonlight Sonata backwards. Found John talking about it:
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HauserPlenty:
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." "Make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you." "This is ex-Beatle, John Lennon. I've been wanting to write you, but I guess I didn't really want to face reality. I never do this, this is why I take drugs. Reality frightens me and paranoids me. True, I have a lot of money... but basically, I'm afraid to face the problems of life. Let me begin to say, I regret that I said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. I don't even like myself anymore -- guilt. My Cousin, Marilyn McCabe has tried to help me. She told me you were praying for me. ... I want happiness. I don't want to keep up with drugs... Explain to me what Christianity can do for me. Is it phoney? Can He love me? I want out of Hell. I am, I hate to say, under the influence of pills now. I can't stop. I only wish I could thank you for caring." - John Lennon, Letter to Oral Roberts in 1972, as quoted in Oral Roberts : An American Life? (1985) by David Edwin
I wish that John would have written to Jimmy Swaggart, there's a good chance that Jimmy Swaggart would have been a rocker like his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis!
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"Jesus was alright, but his followers are thick and ordinary" ~ //oo\\ There are a lot of professing Christians who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. I remember watching Jimmy Swaggart live on tv, giving a half shod apology to his wife after he got busted with a hooker. Jesus promoted Love and Peace for All People. Lennon did too. I worked with a mild mannered former Air Force ex-Christian pastor who left the church after being out with a drunk Southern Baptist preacher, who took his 32 caliber hand gun out on a country road one night and shot at a cow behind a fence a few feet away. Now, he's married to a woman who is a Pantheist who believes that God is Everywhere just like the Orginal True Worshipping Christians do. John did just as much good for Jesus as anyone has. Lennon was making a stand against divided and denominationalized religions which have strayed from the Truths of Life. "You can go to church and look quite cute, you can judge me by the color of my suit...you can live a lie until you die, but one thing you can't hide...is when you're crippled inside." ~ //oo\\ One of my observations through the years is that some people just seem to get too drunk...too stoned...or too sober at times.
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SurSteven:
"Jesus was alright, but his followers are thick and ordinary" ~ //oo\\ There are a lot of professing Christians who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. I remember watching Jimmy Swaggart live on tv, giving a half shod apology to his wife after he got busted with a hooker. Jesus promoted Love and Peace for All People. Lennon did too. I worked with a mild mannered former Air Force ex-Christian pastor who left the church after being out with a drunk Southern Baptist preacher, who took his 32 caliber hand gun out on a country road one night and shot at a cow behind a fence a few feet away. Now, he's married to a woman who is a Pantheist who believes that God is Everywhere just like the Orginal True Worshipping Christians do. John did just as much good for Jesus as anyone has. Lennon was making a stand against divided and denominationalized religions which have strayed from the Truths of Life. "You can go to church and look quite cute, you can judge me by the color of my suit...you can live a lie until you die, but one thing you can't hide...is when you're crippled inside." ~ //oo\\ One of my observations through the years is that some people just seem to get too drunk...too stoned...or too sober at times.
Amen to that SurSteven!
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"One Thing I Can Tell You Is You Got To Be Free" ~ //oo\\
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hey_kittay:
"Some of you sitting there with your cock in your hand Don't get you nowhere don't make you a man." From "I Found Out."
This is applicable to that Peacock!
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Always wondered why Lennon said, "London's nothing." (He really did say that.) Wonder why he wasn't impressed with London? John called Yoko "it" in one of his interviews about his rapture over meeting her. (Paraphrased) He met an exceptional woman with whom he could: "You can talk to it...sleep with it...it can be your best mate, etc." ( ) Haven't some of you read that, that's always stuck with me.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Always wondered why Lennon said, "London's nothing." (He really did say that.) Wonder why he wasn't impressed with London? John called Yoko "it" in one of his interviews about his rapture over meeting her. (Paraphrased) He met an exceptional woman with whom he could: "You can talk to it...sleep with it...it can be your best mate, etc." ( ) Haven't some of you read that, that's always stuck with me.
apropos
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jl4761:
SurSteven:
"Jesus was alright, but his followers are thick and ordinary" ~ //oo\\ There are a lot of professing Christians who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. I remember watching Jimmy Swaggart live on tv, giving a half shod apology to his wife after he got busted with a hooker. Jesus promoted Love and Peace for All People. Lennon did too. I worked with a mild mannered former Air Force ex-Christian pastor who left the church after being out with a drunk Southern Baptist preacher, who took his 32 caliber hand gun out on a country road one night and shot at a cow behind a fence a few feet away. Now, he's married to a woman who is a Pantheist who believes that God is Everywhere just like the Orginal True Worshipping Christians do. John did just as much good for Jesus as anyone has. Lennon was making a stand against divided and denominationalized religions which have strayed from the Truths of Life. "You can go to church and look quite cute, you can judge me by the color of my suit...you can live a lie until you die, but one thing you can't hide...is when you're crippled inside." ~ //oo\\ One of my observations through the years is that some people just seem to get too drunk...too stoned...or too sober at times.
Amen to that SurSteven!
Amen, jl4761! "Some call it magic the search for the grail, Love is the answer" ~ //oo\\
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John was FAR from being a prophet... he was just a human being, a very flawed one at that. Though brilliant of course.
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Hi crisstti! We are all prophets in our own way. This is one of my favorite writings with the word prophet in it. It talks about musicians who sing about love and peace. Ezekiel 33:31 - 33:33 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, [but] their heart goeth after their own wants and desires. 32 And, lo, thou [art] unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. 33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them. "Love Is All You Need" "Give Peace A Chance" ~ //oo\\
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"Think!" ~ //oo\\
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"Strawberry Fields Forever" ~ //oo\\ Brother and Sis-In-Law visited Central Park a few years ago...