"I always was a rebel...but on the..." - Quote by John Lennon
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
“Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.”
“I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.”
More on Authenticity
“I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.”
“The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.”
“Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.”
More on Individuality
“I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.”
“The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.”
“What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.”