John Lennon Quotes
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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.
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
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The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.
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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.
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My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
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There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.
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I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore...
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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
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Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
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It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
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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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...if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
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There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.
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Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.
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Instant Karma is going to get you.
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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.
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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
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I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control...
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The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
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When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.
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I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
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We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.