John Lennon Quotes

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

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.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

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.

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.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

I always read the papers, the political bits.

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

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.

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.

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.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

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.

Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.

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.

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

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.

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

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

War is over ... If you want it.

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...

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!

You, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

The sun is up, the sky is blueIt's beautiful, and so are you

Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

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

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.