John Lennon Quotes

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

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

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.

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

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

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.

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.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

I really thought that love would save us all.

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.

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

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

Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

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.

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

Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

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

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.

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'.

Love is real, real is love.

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

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.

If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.

Come together, right now.

Music is everybody's possession.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

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.

Money can't buy me love.

I don't believe in yesterday.

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.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

Love is needing to be loved.

Remember to let her into your heart.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

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

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.

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.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?