"When they've tortured and scared you for..." - Quote by John Lennon
When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.
More by John Lennon
“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.”
“If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.”
“I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.”
More on Society
“... A nation has to take its natural courseOf Progress round and round in circlesFrom King to Mob to King to Mob to KingUntil the eddy of it eddies out.”
“The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.”
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”
More on Pressure
“It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too.”
“Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.”
“Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!”