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I Still Don't Know How To Express The Really Delicate Personal Stuff. People Think That Plastic Ono Is Very Personal, But There Are Some Subtleties Of Emotions Which I Cannot Seem To Express In Pop Music, And It Frustrates Me. Maybe That's Why I Still Search For Other Ways Of Expressing Myself. Song Writing Is A Limiting Experience In Some Ways - Writing Down Words That Have To Rhyme.

-John Lennon

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John Lennon

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I Still Don't Know How To Express The Really Delicate Personal Stuff. People Think That Plastic Ono Is Very Personal, But There Are Some Subtleties Of Emotions Which I Cannot Seem To Express In Pop Music, And It Frustrates Me. Maybe That's Why I Still Search For Other Ways Of Expressing Myself. Song Writing Is A Limiting Experience In Some Ways - Writing Down Words That Have To Rhyme.

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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.

Well, I Just Want Him To Grow Up Happy. That's The Main Thing.

And, Because My Role In Society - Or Any Artist Or Poet's Role - Is To Try To Express What We All Feel. Not To Tell People How To Feel, Not As A Preacher, Not As A Leader, But As A Reflection Of Us All. And It's Like That's The Job Of The Artist In Society, Not To...they're Not Some Alienated Being Living On The Outskirts Of Town. It's Fine To Live On The Outskirts Of Town, But Artists Must Reflect What We All Are. … If That's Taken It Too Much On Meself, I Feel That Artists Are That - They're Reflections Of Society... Mirrors.

You Are Not Your Emotions,you Have Emotions,and You Can Master Them.

My Teacher Asked Me What I Want To Be When I Grow Up, I Said Happy. She Told Me I Don't Understand The Assignment, I Told Her She Doesn't Understand Life.

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