John Lennon
Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.Collection: Joy
Don't need a gun to blow your mindCollection: Blow
When you cross the street, take my handCollection: Hands
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.Collection: Inspirational
There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy. Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy.Collection: Song
Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.Collection: Impact
But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.Collection: God
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.Collection: Atheist
I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.Collection: Jesus
I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.Collection: Jesus
There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.Collection: Thinking
Happiness is a warm gun.Collection: Gun
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!Collection: Color
I don't want to be king, I want to be real.Collection: Inspirational
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happeningCollection: Inspirational
There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.Collection: Rocks
Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These.Collection: Investing
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.Collection: Love
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.Collection: Records
I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.Collection: Pain
Don’t hate what you don’t understand!Collection: Hate
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.Collection: Love
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?Collection: Faith
I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.Collection: Understanding
Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...Collection: Sky
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.Collection: Real
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It’s real. And I meant it.Collection: Real
You don’t have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.Collection: Firsts
I never listen to the radio. If it’s bad, I make fun of it, and if it’s good, I get jealous that I didn’t think of it.Collection: Fun
Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.Collection: Real
I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there’s any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.Collection: Reading
You’re only awake when you realise you’re awake and when you’re dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real – whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you’re doing in a dream, it’s, there’s nobody to tell me it isn’t as real as this now, because how do you know?Collection: Real
It’s pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it’s pretty hard to break out of that, to say ‘Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.’Collection: Real
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It’s no fun being an artist. You know what it’s like, writing, it’s torture.Collection: Fun
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there’s many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I’ve been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.Collection: Book
People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn’t have the same freedom.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Real