John Lennon Quotes

“I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.”

“At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'”

“You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.”

“Nothing is real.”

“Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.”

“I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?”

“Art is only a way of expressing pain.”

“You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.”

“I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.”

“Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.”

“I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.”

“No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.”

“Getting out of one car and getting into another”

“Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.”

“My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.”

“I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.”

“A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted.”

“I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.”

“I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.”

“I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore”

“New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.”

“I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .”

“Money can't buy me love.”

“Happiness is a good vibe for peace.”

“In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.”