John Lennon Quotes

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it... view

By: 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... view

By: John Lennon

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you... view

By: John Lennon

The more I see the less I know for sure... view

By: John Lennon

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction... view

By: 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... view

By: John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination... view

By: John Lennon

There's nothing you can know that isn't known... view

By: John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty... view

By: 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... view

By: John Lennon

Love is the flower you've got to let grow... view

By: John Lennon

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure.. view

By: John Lennon

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem... view

By: John Lennon

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans... view

By: John Lennon

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted... view

By: John Lennon

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip... view

By: John Lennon

We're more popular than Jesus now.. view

By: John Lennon

We've got this gift of love, but 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 watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it... view

By: 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... view

By: John Lennon

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry... view

By: John Lennon

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun... view

By: John Lennon

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!.. view

By: John Lennon

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die... view

By: 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... view

By: 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... view

By: 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... view

By: John Lennon

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot... view

By: John Lennon

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality... view

By: John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance... view

By: John Lennon

All you need is love... view

By: 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... view

By: 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?.. view

By: 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... view

By: John Lennon

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me... view

By: John Lennon

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that.. view

By: John Lennon

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground... view

By: John Lennon

Everything is clearer when you're in love... view

By: John Lennon

God is a concept by which we measure our pain... view

By: 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... view

By: 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... view

By: 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?.. view

By: John Lennon

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!.. view

By: John Lennon