John Lennon Quotes

“Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!”

“Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.”

“I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.”

“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.”

“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.”

“I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.”

“A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.”

“Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.”

“We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.”

“We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.”

“That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.”

“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

“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.”

“Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.”

“If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.”

“The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.”

“I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.”

“What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?”

“Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.”

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”

“I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.”

“Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.”

“I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind”

“I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?”

“As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.”