John Lennon: 264 cytaty13 Polubień
John Lennon słynne cytaty
„Im więcej widzę, tym mniej rzeczy jestem pewien.”
The more I see the less I know for sure. (ang.)
„Brytyjska rodzina królewska uznała, że jestem na tym samym poziomie, co banda wulgarnych tępaków.”
Hector Dupuis, po wręczeniu zespołowi The Beatles przez królową Anglii Elżbietę II Orderu Imperium Brytyjskiego (12 czerwca 1965).
„Prawdopodobnie zostanę zdmuchnięty przez jakiegoś pomyleńca.”
na jednej z konferencji prasowych w latach 60. odpowiadając na pytanie, jak wyobraża sobie swoją śmierć.
„Jedyne, co chcemy przekazać, to aby dać szansę ideologii pokoju.”
All we are saying is give peace a chance. (ang.)
Źródło: odpowiedź na pytanie dziennikarza, co Lennon i Yoko Ono chcą osiągnąć akcją Bed – In, rok 1969. Później słowa te wykorzystane zostały w utworze Give peace a chance.
John Lennon Cytaty o ludziach
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion, sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still fucking peasents as far as I can see (ang.)
Źródło: Working Class Hero, album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), tłum.J. Szafrański.
Utwór: Imagine, z płyty Imagine <br class="br">Tłumaczenie: Tomasz Beksiński, http://www.krypta.whad.pl
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be
There’s room at the top I’m telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me (ang.)
Źródło: Working Class Hero, album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), tłum.J. Szafrański.
John Lennon cytaty
Źródło: wywiad dla Apple razem z Yoko Ono, Londyn, 5 sierpnia 1969
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, PWM, Kraków 1986, s. 88.
„Razem z moimi trzema kolegami z zespołu The Beatles mamy zamiar zorganizować wspólny koncert.”
Źródło: The Long And Winding Road (film dokumentalny wydany w połowie lat osiemdziesiątych; wypowiedź pochodzi z 28 listopada 1980 roku)
o spotkaniu z Elvisem Presleyem.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, PWM, Kraków 1986, s. 89.
Źródło: RKO Radio (wypowiedź z 8 grudnia 1980 roku)
„Z miłością jest jak z kwiatem, pozwól mu zakwitnąć.”
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. (ang.)
„Kobieta jest Murzynem świata.”
Woman Is The Nigger of The World (ang.)
Źródło: tytuł piosenki z albumu Some Time in New York City (1972)
„Chodźmy do domu, chcę zobaczyć Seana, zanim pójdzie spać.”
ostatnie słowa <br class="br">Źródło: Ostatnie słowa przed śmiercią, itvl.pl, 16 kwietnia 2013 http://www.itvl.pl/news/ostatnie-slowa-przed-smiercia
4 listopada 1963 r. na koncercie u księżniczki Małgorzaty.
„Życie to coś, co upływa, kiedy ty jesteś zajęty snuciem planów na przyszłość.”
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. (ang.)
Źródło: Beautiful Boy
słowa wypowiedziane do Paula Krassnera.
„Przynajmniej teraz John Lennon nie jest już dla mnie wielki.”
fragment piosenki węgierskiego zespołu Republic John Lennon.
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. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me. (ang.)
o The Beatles, w wywiadzie dla brytyjskiej gazety „Evening Standard”, 4 marca 1966.
John Lennon: Cytaty po angielsku
“If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.”
1972 Mike Douglas Show http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/2012/06/11/beatles-rarity-of-the-week-john-lennon-performs-with-chuck-berry-1972/, quoted in: Lawrence, Ken (2005) John Lennon: In His Own Words, p. 107.
Asked how he felt about a Beatles' Shea Stadium concert not selling out; Pop Chronicles: Show 38 - The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance. (Part 4) https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19797/m1/#track/6, 22 August 1966 http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1966.0822.beatles.html.
Letter to Oral Roberts in 1972, as quoted in Oral Roberts : An American Life (1985) by David Edwin Harrell, p. 310; later published in How to be a Successful Teenager (1994) by Rick Jones, Ch. 5 : The Secret About Material Things, p. 54; the accuracy of this is disputed in "The Gospel of John Lennon" in This Land Press (7 March 2011) http://thislandpress.com/03/07/2011/the-gospel-of-john-lennon/ <br class="br">Disputed
Źródło: The Beatles: All These Years Vol. 1: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn (2013), p. 62 Lewisohn remarks: "(He would have faced prison on his return.)"
“I really thought that love would save us all.”
As quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer (10 December 1980) http://www.rubylane.com/shops/timemachinecollectibles/item/6475?gbase=1
On the song "Yesterday", written by Paul McCartney
Playboy interview (1980)
“I know you understand the little child inside of your man.”
"Woman"
Lyrics, Double Fantasy (1980)
Źródło: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 9
"Revolution" (Single version)
"Revolution 1" - The Beatles [White Album] version (in this recorded performance of the song, Lennon interjects "in", after saying "count me out").
Lyrics
Wariant: You say you want a revolution,
Well, you know, we all want to change the world...
But when you talk about destruction,
Don't you know that you can count me out — in.
“I want you to make love, not war — I know you've heard it before.”
"Mind Games" — the final fading statement on the track.
Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
"Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969)
Lyrics
“First you must learn to smile as you kill.”
"Working Class Hero"
Lyrics, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one;
I hope some day you will join us,
And the world will live as one.
"Imagine" (song)
Lyrics, Imagine (1971 album)
Quoted in The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics http://books.google.com/books?id=DKG-FXj_HNYC&q=%22lots+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%27d+say+we+deserve+ours+more%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage (1969)
During the Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, Canada (1 June 1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oJ9w0x_dzo
Playboy interview (1980)
BBC interview, used in a Citroën ad, as quoted in "John Lennon Appearance In Car Ad Stirs Controversy" by Monica Herrera in Billboard (4 March 2010) http://www.billboard.com/column-viralvideos/john-lennon-appearance-in-car-ad-stirs-controversy-1004072693.story#/column-viralvideos/john-lennon-appearance-in-car-ad-stirs-controversy-1004072693.story. Though there has been no official dispute that he made this statement, a YouTube video has claimed that the audio used in the advertisement is not original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipyUk5-wlFg. <br class="br">Disputed
Quoted by Hunter Davies in The Beatles (1968)
Responding to suggestion that the Beatles should reunite to perform benefit concerts.
Playboy interview (1980)
Interview with RKO Radio on the day of his murder (8 December 1980)
“Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you
Julia.”
"Julia" on The Beatles (1968); these lines were adapted from lines of Sand and Foam (1926) by Khalil Gibran: "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you".
Lyrics
“Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.”
Talking about his son, Julian Lennon, in Ticket to Ride : Inside the Beatles' 1964 Tour That Changed the World (2003) by Larry Kane http://books.google.com/books?id=5MYmhGAmfUkC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=%22well+i+just+want+him+to+grow+up+happy+that's+the+main+thing%22&source=web&ots=o-UOaUrmcr&sig=svkKFzayFfeFgYVwxKn0GsDysPU
