John Lennon Quotes
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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...
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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.
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I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.
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There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy... All you need is love.
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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.
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I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
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The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
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Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
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Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
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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.
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I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
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We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
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You can only breathe out if you breathe in.
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All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.
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Before Cliff Richard and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
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We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.
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Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.
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I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
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I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
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You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
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I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
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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.