"Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream..." - Quote by John Lennon
Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
More by John Lennon
“I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.”
“Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.”
“We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.”
More on Reality
“In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.”
“Leave that which is not,but appears to be.Seek that which is,but is not apparent.”
“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”