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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I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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We had one thing in common – we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.
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Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.
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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.
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When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.
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Before Elvis there was nothing.
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I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
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The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
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"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.
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After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
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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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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.
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Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.
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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 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.
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You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
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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.