Words matter. These are the best John Lennon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.
I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
The more I see the less I know for sure.
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.
It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.
We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.
Everything is clearer when you’re in love.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
