John Lennon Quotes

“Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.”

“Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.”

“The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.”

“Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.”

“As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.”

“I wanna hold your gland.”

“Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.”

“There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.”

“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones”

“I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.”

“There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.”

“I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.”

“Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?”

“I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.”

“There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.”

“Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.”

“My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.”

“You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.”

“Tell the truth and make it rhyme”

“Love is needing to be loved.”

“You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.”

“It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.”

“Love is real, real is love.”

“I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.”

“The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.”