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Quotes from Playboy interview — John Lennon

1940–1980 England

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9 quotes

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Playboy interview (1980)

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

Playboy interview (1980)

I'm the famous one, the one who's supposed to know everything, but she's my teacher. She's taught me everything I fucking know.

Playboy interview (1980)

A Don Juan isn't in the newspaper and doesn't have disciples and doesn't proselytize.

Playboy interview (1980)

Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the way...That's another piece of garbage.

Playboy interview (1980)

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

Playboy interview (1980)

It just came to me. Everybody was going on about karma, especially in the Sixties. But it occurred to me that karma is instant as well as it influences your past life or your future life.

Playboy interview (1980)

If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

Playboy interview (1980)

I don't stand back and judge — I do.

Playboy interview (1980)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Lennon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.