John Lennon Quotes

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

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

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear.

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.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

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.

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.

A working class hero is something to be.

I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

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.

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

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

It's weird not to be weird.

I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

When you cross the street, take my hand

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

Whatever gets you through the night

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.

There are no problems, only solutions.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.

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.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

I believe time wounds all heels.

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.

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

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.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

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.

I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

I want it to sound like an orange.

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.