John Lennon Quotes (106 Quotes)

Love is all, love is new Love is all, love is you

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.

And so this is Christmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

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?

When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

He's a real Nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Doesn't have a point of view, Knows not where he's going to, Isn't he a bit like you and me

I think that through that kind of incredible, strange confrontation, people started to understand me,

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

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.

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 ha

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.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

You are all geniuses, and you are 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, live peace, and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960

I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for today

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

Now in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said, 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fukin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bastrd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fukin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world

(CNN) -- We always called it 'the eye of the hurricane,' ... It was calmer right in the middle than on the peripheries.

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.

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

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

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

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

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

The youth have hope because it's their future they're hopeful about and if they're depressed about their own future, well, then we are in a bad state. And we keep hope alive by keeping it alive amongst ourselves.

Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep.

Canada is America without being American without that We-are-the-mighty-whatever scene. Canadas image is just about getting groovy, you know.

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

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.

It's been a hard day's night.

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

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