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Old 12-06-2007, 11:35 PM   #1 (permalink)
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8th of Dec arrives a Lennon Memorium

Quotes by John Lennon

(I highlighted the most important to me personally...do you have any?)

As the 8th of Dec. nears and we take a moment in memoriam for John.... let us look back on some of his more famous quotes.

Blessings to you John for what you were able to leave us and for being who you were.


Quote:
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

"Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground."

"Everything is clearer when you're in love."

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

"Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something."

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."

"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."

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."


"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one."

"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."

"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow."

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

"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."

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality."

"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we 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?"

"The more I see the less I know for sure."

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."

"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"

"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."

"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."




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Old 12-07-2007, 03:32 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Thank you Pan6467.

When I was 11, his album, Imagine sat in its special spot on top of my dresser. I was 21 when he died.
Such a Spark he was, and always will be.
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Old 12-07-2007, 04:02 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I was 12 when he died and I remember hearing the news like it was yesterday....I cant say I agree with everything he said....but he was a man that did what he spoke and for that I have to admire him
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Old 12-07-2007, 08:01 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I was just over the "30yo" hump when he was killed and I first saw him/The Beatles in 1963 live in Philadelphia, and to me they were very signficant from that moment on, and he was a large part of that signficance.

I really don't think John would want to "R.I.P." Probably he'd rather have us all keep up the struggle toward peace.
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Old 12-07-2007, 08:37 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Wow, it crept up on me this year. Thank you for this post. I will too add my favorite quotes shortly. I am at work and have a meeting in a few.

I was in kindergarten when he was killed, i remember it clearer than almost any of my other childhood memories. I was brought up on the Beatles and Lennon and so will my children.
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Old 12-07-2007, 08:45 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Thank you for posting that tribute. And thanks for the legacy, John.

Every lyric of Imagine says it for me. I still get goosebumps when I hear it or recall the words.

Little gems from an interview:

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

I don't stand back and judge — I do.
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Old 12-07-2007, 08:54 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Always my favorite Beatle. God bless you John Lennon, you are missed.
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Old 12-07-2007, 10:15 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I can still recall hearing Howard Cosell on Monday night football. I woke up my wife and told her this was like the President being shot. I remember the depression that hung over all of us for weeks. The way he was taken away, so tragic and so opposite of his life. Sometimes I wonder what could have been. I'd love to hear some of his sarcastic wit about the way things are now. And some new Lennon tunes. Very few people can be credited with changing the world. I think time will prove that he, as part of the Beatles, did.
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Old 12-08-2007, 12:54 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I can still recall hearing Howard Cosell on Monday night football. I woke up my wife and told her this was like the President being shot. I remember the depression that hung over all of us for weeks. The way he was taken away, so tragic and so opposite of his life. Sometimes I wonder what could have been. I'd love to hear some of his sarcastic wit about the way things are now. And some new Lennon tunes. Very few people can be credited with changing the world. I think time will prove that he, as part of the Beatles, did.
I was 13, I remember how badly my parents, teachers and most of my friends took it.

2 more quotes..... how ironic and prophetic.

Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnLennon
"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"
Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnLennon
"Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something."
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Old 12-08-2007, 01:04 AM   #10 (permalink)
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I wasn't fortunate enough to have lived during Lennon's lifetime, but I like to think that he's positively effected my life just the same.

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon

The man was a visionary. I only wish that he would have had more time.
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Old 12-08-2007, 05:53 AM   #11 (permalink)
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nice reminders..

thanks, pan..
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Old 12-08-2007, 08:24 AM   #12 (permalink)
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thanks pan............



RIP Johnny...........
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Old 12-11-2007, 12:19 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Sorry I don't have more to offer than this, but I went to NYC over the Thanksgiving holiday and visited Strawberry Field in Central Park. There's a small memorial dedicated to him on a walkway there. "IMAGINE" is written out in big letters, and small pictures of him and flowers are laid around. There's also a guitar. I remember one woman was crying there. Even though it's been nearly 3 decades after his death, he still invokes a lot of emotion among visitors.
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