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English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)

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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

– John Lennon

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Before Elvis, there was nothing.

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

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The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

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Whatever gets you through the night is all right.

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When I was five years old my mother told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

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All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

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Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.

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I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960

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I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

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Life is what happens to you While you're busy making other plans.

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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

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My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

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Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

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You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

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I’m a most religious fellow, i was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message.

– John Lennon

Found on FOX News 2 years ago

I wanted to show the tough ride of being a successful artist, and how I went through tough times, and how I came out at the end and got my life together, it's the story of my life up to the present day, warts and all.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago

I never go on stage late, i just love to get out there and I'm raring to go.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago

He came out to probably the most touching ovation I've ever heard, we all shed a tear on stage.

– John Lennon

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

I don't know what's next and I don't want to know what's next, i'm just ready for the next chapter.

– John Lennon

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

No f ------ way. Don't answer it, do you want Andy Warhol coming in here taking photos when you've got icicles of coke hanging out of your nose ?

– John Lennon

Found on CNN 5 years ago

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