John Quotes

It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.

All this bit about angels and all the different religions, it's based on something. I think anything's possible. I believe in everything until it's disproved.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

I don't believe in Elvis.

From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.

Getting out of one car and getting into another

It's Wierd not to be Wierd.

We gave up everything just to sit at your table.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

There is no problem only solutions

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

I always read the papers, the political bits.

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

Sensible people have got to work together.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"