Sean Lennon Quotes
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You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.
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For me, songwriting is something that 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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What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.
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I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.
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If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.
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I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.
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I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…
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I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.
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I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.
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I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.
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Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.
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Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.
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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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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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The most important thing in art is taste.
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My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.
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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 and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
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My tendency is to be very experimental.
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Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.
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I try not to do anything by formula.
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I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.
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The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.
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When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.
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I like songs that go to different places and then come back.
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I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.
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If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.
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It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.
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Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist
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The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.
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