John Lennon famous quotes

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?
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Life #Faith

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.
-- John Lennon

#Art #Believe #Sculpture

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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.
-- John Lennon

#Children #Wall #Thinking

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Tattoo #Encouraging

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?
-- John Lennon

#Dream #Real #Awake

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Morning

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

Before Elvis there was nothing.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

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.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Marriage

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
-- John Lennon

#Imperfection #Needs #Ability To Love

I cannot be what I am not.
-- John Lennon

#Positivity

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Creativity #Air

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Friendship #Birthday

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore
-- John Lennon

#Insecure #Feelings #Might

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.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #God #Jesus

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Friendship #Best Friend

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'
-- John Lennon

#Love #Kissing #Missing

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Inspirational #Peace

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
-- John Lennon

#Love #Inspirational #Life

He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.
-- John Lennon

#Party #Coffee #Class

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.
-- John Lennon

#Drug #Dumb #Next

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
-- John Lennon

#Dream

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

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.
-- John Lennon

#Artist #Idols #People

I believe time wounds all heels.
-- John Lennon

#Believe #I Believe #Heels

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.
-- John Lennon

#Retirement #Responsibility #Glimpse

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
-- John Lennon

#People

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
-- John Lennon

#Records #Fame

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.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Life #Music

The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour.
-- John Lennon

#Fighting #Beard #Faces

I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
-- John Lennon

#Believe #I Believe #I Believe In

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Rome #People

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
-- John Lennon

#Men #Hair #Long

A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted...
-- John Lennon

#Time #Wasting Time #Wasted Time

Tell the truth and make it rhyme
-- John Lennon

#Telling The Truth #Rhyme

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.
-- John Lennon

#Looks #Way #Management

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
-- John Lennon

#Reality #Vision #Psychedelic

As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.
-- John Lennon

#Dream #Kids #Boys

Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot.
-- John Lennon

#Kings #People #Serious

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
-- John Lennon

#Long #Pieces #One Piece

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
-- John Lennon

#People #Vision #World

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
-- John Lennon

#School #Grew Up #Grew

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.
-- John Lennon

#Beautiful #Believe #Deserve

Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.
-- John Lennon

#Meditation #Drug #Doing You

Imagine all the people living life in peace...
-- John Lennon

#Live Life #People #Imagine

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
-- John Lennon

#Stars #Normal #Reason

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
-- John Lennon

#Hands #Musician #Rebel

I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
-- John Lennon

#Running #Trying #Want

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.
-- John Lennon

#Christmas #Fun #Years

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.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Inspirational #Life

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
-- John Lennon

#Unknown Future #Stills

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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.
-- John Lennon

#Bullying #Kids #Not Caring

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
-- John Lennon

#Truth

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Life #Atheist

I really thought that love would save us all.
-- John Lennon

When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.
-- John Lennon

#Real #Joy #Understanding

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Fighting #Life Is

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
-- John Lennon

#New York #Rome #America

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Inspirational #Life

It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that.
-- John Lennon

#Believe #Abortion #Enough

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
-- John Lennon

#Peace #Light #Giving

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
-- John Lennon

#Insecurity #Express Yourself

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
-- John Lennon

#Bird

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives
-- John Lennon

#Running #People #Insane

Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
-- John Lennon

#Beautiful #Dream #Imagine

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
-- John Lennon

#Purpose #Life Is #Plans

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...
-- John Lennon

#Letting Go #Running #Song

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go
-- John Lennon

#Want #Fields #Strawberries

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
-- John Lennon

#Stars #Self Esteem #Moon

Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.
-- John Lennon

#Wonder #Imagine #Possession

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.
-- John Lennon

#Groups #Auditions #Saying Thank You

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
-- John Lennon

#Sex #Tvs

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.
-- John Lennon

#Half #Meaningless

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
-- John Lennon

#Life #Being Yourself #Fate

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Life #Shining

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.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Reality #Insanity

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Pain #World

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

#Dream #Walrus

Whatever gets you through the night
-- John Lennon

#Perseverance #Acceptance #Night

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
-- John Lennon

#Cab Drivers #Pieces #Want

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
-- John Lennon

#Hope #Helping #Springsteen

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
-- John Lennon

#Inspirational #Life #Rock And Roll

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

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.
-- John Lennon

#Hippie #Artist #Reflection

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
-- John Lennon

#People #World #Imagine

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.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Song #Peace

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
-- John Lennon

#Faith #Jesus #Political

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
-- John Lennon

#Love #Life #Happiness

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
-- John Lennon

#Leadership #Law #Nine

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?
-- John Lennon

#Cat #Men