John Lennon:
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John Lennon słynne cytaty
„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.
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.
Utwór: Imagine, z płyty Imagine
Tłumaczenie: Tomasz Beksiński, http://www.krypta.whad.pl
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
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
Wariant: When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
Also found with the alternative spelling: Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end
Found anonymously on Usenet in 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.support.divorce/gKiyfcAYreo/jjuc6KTu_NAJ. First known attribution to Lennon is from 2011 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=stow-ma-apple-barn/45MNk9KiGsY/vaq6pr8hgI0J.
Disputed
Wariant: Everything is OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.
“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967)
Lyrics
Wariant: Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
Kontekst: Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me. Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
As quoted in Sunday Herald Sun [Melbourne, Australia] (13 January 2003)]
Wariant: Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed
"Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969), referring to his "bed-in" honeymoon of March 1969.
Lyrics
“It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.”
Playboy interview (1980)
Kontekst: It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison — it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.
Źródło: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 226
Kontekst: I don't need to go to church. I respect churches because of the sacredness that's been put on them over the years by people who do believe. But I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church, and as Donovan once said, "I go to my own church in my own temple once a day." And I think people who need a church should go. And the others who know the church is in your own head should visit that temple because that's where the source is. We're all God. Christ said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." And the Indians say that and the Zen people say that. We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
"Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"; similar expressions were used by others prior to Lennon's use of this line, and have been attributed to Betty Talmadge, Thomas La Mance, Margaret Millar, William Gaddis, and Lily Tomlin, but the earliest known published occurrence was the 1957 attribution of "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." to Allen Saunders in Reader's Digest, according to The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes
Lyrics, Double Fantasy (1980)
Wariant: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Wariant: Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
“I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.”
Źródło: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 9
“Love is the flower you've got to let grow.”
Źródło: Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
Kontekst: We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic — the search for the grail.
Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.
“We're more popular than Jesus now”
One of the most controversial statements Lennon ever made, this was published in England's Evening Standard newspaper (4 March 1966) as part of an interview with writer Maureen Cleave.
Kontekst: 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.
