John Lennon Quotes
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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
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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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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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The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
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You can only breathe out if you breathe in.
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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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I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.
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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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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
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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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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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It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko Ono. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.
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I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George Harrison would sit me down and make me listen.
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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.
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I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
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There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
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I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.
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I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing - and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said - the basic things he laid down about love and goodness - and not what people say he said.
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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.
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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...
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I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.