John Lennon Quotes
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If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
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We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.
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The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
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Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing...
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In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
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What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
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I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.
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I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.
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For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
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You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war—for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
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Very rich.
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I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.
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We thought being offered the M.B.E. Member of the Order of the British Empire was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
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They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.
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Music is everybody's possession.
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.
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I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.