John Lennon Quotes

Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

It's amazing how low you go to get high.

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

Your inside is out and your outside is in.

Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.

There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

Nothing is real.

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

Happiness is a good vibe for peace.

You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

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.