As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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Citations by John Lennon
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.
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There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet, not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
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...
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I think the basic thing nobody asks is why do people takes drugs of any sort? And that question has to be resolved before you can think, well, what can we do for the poor drug addict? Why do we have to have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
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If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Before Yoko and I met, we were half a person. You know there's an old myth about people being half and the other half being in the sky, or in heaven or on the other side of the universe or a mirror image. But we are two halves, and together we're a whole.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
I've sold my soul to the devil.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
We've broken down a few barriers between us, which we had to do because we had two big egos, two individual artists - and with love we overcame that.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
It just came to me. Everybody was going on about karma, especially in the Sixties. But it occurred to me that karma is instant as well as it influences your past life or your future life. There really is a reaction to what you do now. That's what people ought to be concerned about. Also, I'm fascinated by commercials and promotion as an art form. I enjoy them. So the idea of instant karma was like the idea of instant coffee: presenting something in a new form. I just liked it.
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