“The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.” Quote by Yoko Ono
“It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.” NeedsEndsSeemsFatherFiguresRevolutionPersonalityChineseCultFather Figure Author:John Lennon
“In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.” FatherStyleFiguresWesternWorkersCommunismImaginaryFather Figure Author:John Lennon
“All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.” PeopleStatesAbleTogetherHappenedRevolutionWorkersPocketsRepressed Author:John Lennon
“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.” IfsSeemsReadingStarsMorningWrittenMiddleCenturyNewspapers19th CenturyMiddle Aged Author:John Lennon
“We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.” ShouldTryingYoungWorkersIdealistic Author:John Lennon
“Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.” PeopleKnowsRealProblemDifficultClassApproachFingersWorkersRevolutionaryWorking ClassDams Author:John Lennon
“Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.” PeopleTogetherFourImpact Author:John Lennon
“When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.” WholeHoursRecordsPositionProduceAlbumsStudiosHumbleBureaucracyPhilipRecording Studio Author:John Lennon
“If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.” IfsArtistHoursLuckyStudiosHierarchy Author:John Lennon
