John Lennon Quotes
-
I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.
-
It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.
-
Art is only a way of expressing pain.
-
Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?
-
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
-
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'.
-
I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.
-
The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
-
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.
-
How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
-
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.
-
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
-
We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.
-
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
-
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.
-
I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.
-
Don't hate what you don't understand!
-
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends...
-
Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
-
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.
-
The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.
-
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
-
It's amazing how low you go to get high.
-
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.