John Lennon Quotes

“How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?”

“In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.”

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.”

“Whatever gets you through the night”

“Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.”

“Before Elvis there was nothing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.”

“It's weird not to be weird.”

“In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn't see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way.”

“Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.”

“I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.”

“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”

“Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.”

“I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.”

“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”

“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.”

“There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.”

“What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.”

“Get back to where you once belonged.”

“Nobody loves you when you're down and out.”

“Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.”

“Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.”

“If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.”