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John Lennon
October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980
Nationality: English
Category: Musician
Subcategory: English Musician

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.

   

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

   

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

   

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

   

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

   

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.

   

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'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.

   

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

   

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

   

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

   

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