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I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control -- John Lennon
Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves? -- John Lennon
Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. -- John Lennon
I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. -- John Lennon
The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo ... God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life. -- John Lennon
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away. -- John Lennon
I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with. -- John Lennon
When I get older losing my hair many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four? -- John Lennon
New York is what Paris was in the twenties ... the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth ... I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash. -- John Lennon
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was. -- John Lennon
Life happens while we are making other plans. -- John Lennon
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything. -- John Lennon
I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really. -- John Lennon
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. -- John Lennon
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity. -- John Lennon
I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights. -- John Lennon
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard. -- John Lennon
I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak. -- John Lennon
Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together. -- John Lennon
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. -- John Lennon
Love is a flower you got to let it grow. -- John Lennon
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. -- John Lennon
When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us. -- John Lennon
Money can't buy me love. -- John Lennon
I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. -- John Lennon
I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is. -- John Lennon
My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother. -- John Lennon
When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind. -- John Lennon
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything. -- John Lennon
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. -- John Lennon
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap. -- John Lennon
It made me high. It really did. -- John Lennon
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be ... -- John Lennon
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one -- John Lennon
Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world. -- John Lennon
Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident. -- John Lennon
There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all -- John Lennon
You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like. -- John Lennon
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need. -- John Lennon
When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her? -- John Lennon
Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running. -- 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. -- John Lennon
We all shine on ... like the moon and the stars and the sun ... we all shine on ... come on and on and on ... -- John Lennon
I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it ... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album. -- John Lennon
You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other. -- John Lennon
I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you. -- John Lennon
'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. -- John Lennon
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic - the search for the grail.
Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower, you got to let it - you got to let it grow. -- John Lennon
It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring. -- John Lennon
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can ... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. -- John Lennon
I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it. -- John Lennon
The world went mad and used us as an excuse. -- John Lennon
Your inside is out and your outside is in. -- John Lennon
Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head -- John Lennon
News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966) -- John Lennon
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then. -- John Lennon
Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government. -- John Lennon
Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion. -- John Lennon
We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once? -- John Lennon
The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me. -- John Lennon
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. -- John Lennon
What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame. -- John Lennon
You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. -- John Lennon
I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it ... and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy. -- John Lennon
It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. -- John Lennon
The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money. -- John Lennon
And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young. -- John Lennon
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear. -- John Lennon
We're playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds, playing the mind guerilla. -- John Lennon
Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share. -- John Lennon
I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple. -- John Lennon
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. -- John Lennon
I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi. -- John Lennon
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing. -- John Lennon
All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees. -- John Lennon
I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else. -- John Lennon
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones. -- John Lennon
I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love?
I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer. -- John Lennon
In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan. -- John Lennon
What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them. -- John Lennon
I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night -- John Lennon
Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel. -- John Lennon
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. -- John Lennon
I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over. -- John Lennon
Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us. -- John Lennon
All this bit about angels and all the different religions, it's based on something. I think anything's possible. I believe in everything until it's disproved. -- John Lennon
In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was. -- John Lennon
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus. -- John Lennon
Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need. -- John Lennon
Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music. -- John Lennon
We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. -- John Lennon
If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place! -- John Lennon
Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. -- John Lennon
I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music. -- John Lennon
In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko. -- John Lennon
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles ... The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate. -- John Lennon
I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it. -- John Lennon
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. -- John Lennon
No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go. -- John Lennon
I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me. -- John Lennon
Give peace a chance -- John Lennon
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. -- John Lennon
We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence. -- John Lennon
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one. -- John Lennon
Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream. -- John Lennon
I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind -- John Lennon
Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real. -- John Lennon
Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy -- John Lennon
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. -- John Lennon
It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that. -- John Lennon
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. -- John Lennon
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. -- John Lennon
And Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses. -- John Lennon
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God ... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. -- John Lennon
I really thought that love would save us all. -- John Lennon
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color! -- John Lennon
You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing. -- John Lennon
"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko." -- John Lennon
Ringo is Ringo, that's all there is to it. And he's every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles -- John Lennon
Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These. -- John Lennon
There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic. -- John Lennon
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain. -- John Lennon
I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane. -- John Lennon
The more I see, the less I know for sure. -- John Lennon
There is no problem only solutions -- John Lennon
If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
In the Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land ... -- John Lennon
Life's what happens when you're making other plans. -- John Lennon
You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them. -- John Lennon
A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words. -- John Lennon
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage. -- John Lennon
I believe time wounds all heels. -- John Lennon
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. -- John Lennon
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. -- John Lennon
How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving? -- John Lennon
I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money
but that's all the same thing, really. -- John Lennon
There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything. -- John Lennon
It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another. -- John Lennon
It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe. -- John Lennon
Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain. -- John Lennon
Life is what is happening today while you were planning tomorrow -- John Lennon
For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry! -- John Lennon
Life is what happens when you make other plans. -- John Lennon
Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else. -- John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today ... -- John Lennon
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake. -- John Lennon
People think you want them to do something or say something special ... you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself. -- John Lennon
It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure. -- John Lennon
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group. -- John Lennon
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it. -- John Lennon
You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first. -- John Lennon
I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles. -- John Lennon
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it. -- John Lennon
One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me. -- John Lennon
Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing ... Nobody can play guitar like that -- John Lennon
You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map. -- John Lennon
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen!
I am the walrus! -- John Lennon
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe. -- John Lennon
In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure. -- John Lennon
Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone ... -- John Lennon
rain, I don't mind -- John Lennon
They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see -- John Lennon
Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do. -- John Lennon
Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered. -- John Lennon
If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles. -- John Lennon
We gave up everything just to sit at your table. -- John Lennon
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m -- John Lennon
Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy. -- John Lennon
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. -- John Lennon
We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she's young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb -- John Lennon
There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine? -- John Lennon
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it. -- John Lennon
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. -- John Lennon
I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. -- 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. -- John Lennon
Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture. -- John Lennon
At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.' -- John Lennon
I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl. -- John Lennon
I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it. -- John Lennon
When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said:
'do you want me to get them off the car?'
and Lennon replied: 'No - they paid for it, they can wreck it -- John Lennon
'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it. -- John Lennon
Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war. -- John Lennon
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. -- John Lennon
I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality. -- John Lennon
The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us. -- John Lennon
Happiness is inside you, not with another person -- John Lennon
The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?' -- John Lennon
The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time. -- John Lennon
At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness. -- John Lennon
We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen
We tell her, home is the only place she should be
Then we complain that she's too
unworldly to be our friend -- John Lennon
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool. -- John Lennon
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition. -- John Lennon
I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. -- John Lennon
You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more. -- John Lennon
We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer. -- John Lennon
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more? -- John Lennon
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight. -- John Lennon
It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life ... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway. -- John Lennon
Love is the Answer. What was the Question? -- John Lennon
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget ... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. -- John Lennon
There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn. -- John Lennon
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. -- John Lennon
I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper. -- John Lennon
I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. -- John Lennon
Nobody loves you when you're down and out. -- John Lennon
To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'. -- John Lennon
The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko. -- John Lennon
Love is needing to be loved. -- John Lennon
The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us. -- John Lennon
There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair. -- John Lennon
After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent. -- John Lennon
Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed. -- John Lennon
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another. -- John Lennon
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear. -- John Lennon
So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream? -- John Lennon
I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe. -- John Lennon
It's weird not to be weird. -- John Lennon
Strawberry fields forever -- John Lennon
I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run. -- John Lennon
When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium ... those moments are what I live for. -- John Lennon
A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted ... -- John Lennon
I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time. -- John Lennon
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book. -- John Lennon
One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life. -- John Lennon
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends -- John Lennon
In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn't see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way. -- John Lennon
We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft. -- 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. -- John Lennon
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. -- John Lennon
We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that. -- John Lennon
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate. -- John Lennon
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim! -- John Lennon
I don't miss it. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it. -- John Lennon
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool. -- John Lennon
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that. -- John Lennon
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. -- John Lennon
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan. -- John Lennon
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around. -- John Lennon
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. -- John Lennon
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. -- John Lennon
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something. -- John Lennon
A man travelling on a train - like you or I - to
Scotland, had two or two bad eggs in his pocket -
and you know - no one would sit by him. -- John Lennon
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
Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding. -- John Lennon
I don't believe in yesterday. -- John Lennon
Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about. -- John Lennon
Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be. -- John Lennon
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe. -- John Lennon
I am the Walrus... -- John Lennon
I once was the walrus, now I'm John. -- John Lennon
I was the walrus, but now I am John ... and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over. -- John Lennon
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. -- John Lennon
It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him. -- John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow. -- John Lennon
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them. -- John Lennon
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create -- John Lennon
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. -- John Lennon
All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them. -- John Lennon
I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that. -- John Lennon
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. -- John Lennon
Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society. -- John Lennon
And so this is Christmas...what have you done? -- John Lennon
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir ... -- John Lennon
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution. -- John Lennon
The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority. -- John Lennon
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. -- John Lennon
There are no problems, only solutions. -- John Lennon
Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave. -- John Lennon
Those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands, and those of you in the balcony can just rattle your jewelry. -- John Lennon
When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind. -- John Lennon
There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it. -- John Lennon
The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do. -- John Lennon
I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma) -- John Lennon
What we've got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we'll sink. -- John Lennon
Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles. -- John Lennon
I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope. -- John Lennon
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship. -- John Lennon
Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed. -- John Lennon
Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it. -- John Lennon
The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all. -- John Lennon
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. -- John Lennon
One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you -- John Lennon
The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. -- John Lennon
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. -- John Lennon
That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots. -- John Lennon
Please don't spoil my day; I'm miles away and, after all, I'm only sleeping. -- John Lennon
It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again. -- John Lennon
Whatever gets you through the night -- John Lennon
The greatest artists always come round to simplicity. -- John Lennon
The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth. -- John Lennon
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it. -- John Lennon
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. -- John Lennon
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. -- John Lennon
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. -- John Lennon
Doing fine. Watching shadows on the wall. -- John Lennon
Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar. -- John Lennon
My life has been guided by an unseen piano player, who is actually typing this now. -- John Lennon
Getting out of one car and getting into another -- John Lennon
When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career. -- John Lennon
I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams. -- John Lennon
Don't hate what you don't understand! -- John Lennon
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening. -- John Lennon
Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music. -- John Lennon
If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill -- 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. -- John Lennon
Link Wray and Gene Vincent ... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll. -- John Lennon
Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out. -- John Lennon
You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man? -- John Lennon
I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home. -- John Lennon
There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself. -- John Lennon
People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. -- John Lennon
We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win. -- John Lennon
Everything is true and not true about everything. That's one thing I've learned. -- John Lennon
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come. -- John Lennon
A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records. -- John Lennon
The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC. -- John Lennon
Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles -- John Lennon
Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are. -- John Lennon
Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap. -- John Lennon
Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it -- John Lennon
The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect. -- John Lennon
Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it. -- John Lennon
I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty. -- John Lennon
There's nothing you can know that isn't known. -- John Lennon
There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill! -- John Lennon
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. -- John Lennon
We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems. -- John Lennon
Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange. -- John Lennon
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane. -- John Lennon
We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting. -- John Lennon
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture. -- John Lennon
I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic. -- John Lennon
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care. -- John Lennon
Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes. -- John Lennon
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. -- John Lennon
When you cross the street, take my hand -- John Lennon
You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. -- John Lennon
But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven. -- John Lennon
Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met. -- John Lennon
You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know? -- John Lennon
All I want is the truth, just give me some truth -- John Lennon
Turn left at Greenland.... -- John Lennon
Men hide to make love but practice violence in daylight -- John Lennon
In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby! -- John Lennon
Mother, you had me, but I never had you. -- John Lennon
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. -- John Lennon
That love is all, that love is everyone
It is knowing, it is knowing -- John Lennon
Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up. -- John Lennon
I get by with a little help from my friends. -- John Lennon
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were ... It happened bit by bit, until ... you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand
the people you hated when you were ten. -- John Lennon
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. -- John Lennon
I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me. -- John Lennon
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? -- John Lennon
We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us -- John Lennon
There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high
I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high
that's where I'm goin' -- John Lennon
Nothing is real. -- John Lennon
Love is real, real is love. -- John Lennon
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them -- John Lennon
Don't need a gun to blow your mind -- John Lennon
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. -- John Lennon
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time. -- John Lennon
I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ and therefore I shy away from church. -- John Lennon
I always was a rebel ... but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted ... and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not. -- John Lennon
It's amazing how low you go to get high. -- John Lennon
I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried. -- John Lennon
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. -- John Lennon
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight. -- John Lennon
It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce. -- John Lennon
I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up. -- John Lennon
You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it. -- John Lennon
We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right. -- John Lennon
The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in ... The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help. -- John Lennon
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. -- John Lennon
Before Elvis there was nothing. -- John Lennon
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically. -- John Lennon
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up ... I cannot be on the way up again. -- John Lennon
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you -- John Lennon
We want to go forward, but which way are we facing? -- John Lennon
Happiness is a warm gun. -- John Lennon
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me. -- John Lennon
I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity. -- John Lennon
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. -- John Lennon
People are just uptight because the kids are having fun. They didn't have the same freedom because they didn't take it; they just followed the lives laid down by their parents. And they're jealous of the people who didn't do that. -- John Lennon
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to worry. Not before. -- John Lennon
Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day! -- John Lennon
... Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. -- John Lennon
Tell the truth and make it rhyme -- John Lennon
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child. -- John Lennon
[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time. -- John Lennon
Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus. -- John Lennon
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke. -- John Lennon
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. -- John Lennon
Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it. -- John Lennon
I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker. -- John Lennon
The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour. -- John Lennon
If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it. -- John Lennon
You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need. -- John Lennon
There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see. -- John Lennon
Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you. -- John Lennon
I don't stand back and judge - I do. -- John Lennon
My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it. -- John Lennon
Everything is clearer when you're in love. -- John Lennon
I want it to sound like an orange. -- John Lennon
Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you -- John Lennon
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em. -- John Lennon
If you wanna be a hero, well Just Follow ME. -- John Lennon
Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable. -- John Lennon
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! -- John Lennon
If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind. -- John Lennon
Elvis died the day he went into the army. -- John Lennon
I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work. -- John Lennon
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it -- John Lennon
Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal. -- John Lennon
Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care. -- John Lennon
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. -- John Lennon
I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. -- John Lennon
We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time. -- John Lennon
I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority. -- John Lennon
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink ... So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it ... -- John Lennon
I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this. -- John Lennon
I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles. -- John Lennon
Get back to where you once belonged, -- John Lennon
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'. -- John Lennon
Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what. -- John Lennon
I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore -- John Lennon
You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race. -- John Lennon
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it. -- John Lennon
The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler. -- John Lennon
I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song. -- John Lennon
I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable. -- John Lennon
I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years. -- John Lennon
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives -- John Lennon
Rituals are important. -- John Lennon
I still believe that all you need is love. -- John Lennon
Whatever gets you through your life 'salright, 'salright -- John Lennon
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. -- John Lennon
War is over ... If you want it. -- John Lennon
What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie? -- John Lennon
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason! -- John Lennon
Look at me
Who am I supposed to be?
Look at me
What am I supposed to be?
Look at me
Oh my love -- John Lennon
I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse. -- John Lennon
I don't believe in Elvis. -- John Lennon
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV -- John Lennon
I always read the papers, the political bits. -- John Lennon
I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen. -- John Lennon
We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all. -- John Lennon
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. -- John Lennon
Leave a space and something will fill it. -- John Lennon
From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love. -- John Lennon
At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain. -- John Lennon
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground. -- John Lennon
Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.' -- John Lennon
Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of "experts" who made them up in the first place. -- John Lennon
One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside. -- John Lennon
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing? -- John Lennon
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine-and potentially evil. -- John Lennon
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man. -- John Lennon
If there's anything that you want,
If there's anything I can do,
Just call on me,
And I'll send it along with love from me to you. -- John Lennon
A working class hero is something to be. -- John Lennon
I cannot be what I am not. -- John Lennon
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. -- John Lennon
The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage. -- John Lennon
I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution. -- John Lennon
Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes. -- John Lennon
Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love? -- John Lennon
Everything is as important as everything else. -- John Lennon
Remember to let her into your heart. -- John Lennon
I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol. -- John Lennon
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. -- John Lennon
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. -- John Lennon
Come together, right now. -- John Lennon
We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza. -- John Lennon
I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely. -- John Lennon
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? -- John Lennon
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace ... we just need to declare it. -- John Lennon
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here? -- John Lennon
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world. -- John Lennon
Art is only a way of expressing pain. -- John Lennon
Father, you left me, but I never left you. -- John Lennon
Happiness is a good vibe for peace. -- John Lennon
As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much. -- John Lennon
All we are saying is give peace a chance. -- John Lennon
I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead. -- John Lennon
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. -- John Lennon
We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections -- John Lennon
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening -- John Lennon
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. -- John Lennon
I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40. -- John Lennon
Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow. -- John Lennon
Make love, not war. -- John Lennon
Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity. -- John Lennon
When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers. -- John Lennon
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. -- John Lennon
You can only breathe out if you breathe in. -- John Lennon
It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love! -- John Lennon
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. -- John Lennon
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool. -- John Lennon
When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream. -- John Lennon
It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage. -- John Lennon
How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes. -- John Lennon
It's Wierd not to be Wierd. -- John Lennon
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and 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. -- John Lennon
Instant Karma is going to get you. -- John Lennon
I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? -- John Lennon
Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it. -- John Lennon
Life doesn't imitate art ... it is art! -- John Lennon
We were cowards when we sacked him. -- John Lennon
I know I hurt you then But that was way back when. -- John Lennon
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. -- John Lennon
Life happens whilst you're planning other things. -- John Lennon
I'll probably be popped off by some loony. -- John Lennon
Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping ... -- John Lennon
I've never really been wanted. -- John Lennon
When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids. -- John Lennon
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world. -- John Lennon
imagine a world without people -- John Lennon
They'll never be able to forget us. -- John Lennon
Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true. -- John Lennon
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. -- John Lennon
Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful. -- John Lennon
I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it. -- John Lennon
You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate -- John Lennon
Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either. -- John Lennon
Peace and love are eternal -- John Lennon
If you want peace, you won't get it with violence. -- John Lennon
Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness -- John Lennon
Nothing really affected me until Elvis. -- John Lennon
I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision. -- John Lennon
Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you. -- John Lennon
I don't believe in Beatles ... -- John Lennon
Music is everybody's possession. -- John Lennon
Life is what's going on while your making other plans. -- John Lennon
I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too. -- John Lennon
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. -- John Lennon
I wanna hold your gland. -- John Lennon
Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go -- John Lennon
Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor. -- John Lennon
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. -- John Lennon
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game. -- John Lennon
The magic of the music seems to light the way. -- John Lennon
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible. -- John Lennon
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. -- John Lennon
The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people. -- John Lennon
When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced. -- John Lennon
I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before. -- John Lennon
