John Lennon Quotes
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.
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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?
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. John Lennon quotes about love and life
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
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The more I see, the less I know for sure.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
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I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside. famous John Lennon quotes
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.
Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
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I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
All you need is love.
Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
Everything is clearer when you’re in love. John Lennon love quotes
We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.
John Lennon Quote that started Beatles Jesus Controversy: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.”
John Lennon’s Apology for his preceding statement: “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.”
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.
I believe time wounds all heels.
Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.
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All we are saying is give peace a chance.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.
You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
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