Working Class Hero Quotes:

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

- Martin Amis

topic: Hero, Class, America, Working Class Hero

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

- John Lennon

topic: Sex, Tvs, Working Class Hero

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

- John Lennon

source: "Working Class Hero" (song) (1970)

topic: Inspirational, Work, Rooms, Working Class Hero

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

- John Lennon

topic: Education, Years, Careers, Working Class Hero

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

- Elia Kazan

topic: Art, Hero, Class, Working Class Hero

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

- John Lennon

source: "Working Class Hero" (song) (1970)

topic: Education, Clever, Hate, Working Class Hero

A working class hero is something to be.

- John Lennon

topic: Hero, Class, Working Class, Working Class Hero

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

- Alan Jackson

source: Song: Working Class Hero

topic: Children, Work, Hero, Working Class Hero, Working Class

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

- Armstrong Williams

topic: Children, Work, Hero, Working Class Hero

Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.

- Rhys Ifans

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Kings, Queens, Grief, Working Class Hero, Anger Love

That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.

- John Lennon

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Stars, Hero, Class, Working Class Hero, Class System

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

- Don Henley

topic: Song, Dad, Hero, Working Class Hero, Wry