John Lennon Quotes
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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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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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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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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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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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I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
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I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.
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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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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
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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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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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Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
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Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
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Everything is clearer when you're in love.
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.
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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
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What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.
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Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
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It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.
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I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.