John Lennon Quotes

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.

I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

Everything is as important as everything else.

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

Leave a space and something will fill it.

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

You can only breathe out if you breathe in.

Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

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

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.

Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

Happiness is a warm gun.

You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

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

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening