Sean Lennon Quotes

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Sean Lennon

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 9, 1975

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

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Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

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There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

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Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

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For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

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We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

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I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

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My tendency is to be very experimental.

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I try not to do anything by formula.

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Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

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The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

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I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

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There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.

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I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

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It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

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Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

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I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

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I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

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I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

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I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

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