“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
— John Lennon
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
“A mistake is only an error. It becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.”
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
“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.”
“There are no problems, only solutions.”
“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. ”
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
“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.”
“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.”
“Everything is clearer when you're in love.”
“It’s weird not to be weird.”
“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.”
“Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.”
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
“Love is like a flower – you’ve got to let it grow.”
“Time wounds all heels.”
“Living is easy with eyes closed.”
“Don’t hate what you don’t understand!”
“All you need is love.”
“Nothing is real.”
“Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it.”
“Imagine all the people living life in peace...”
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
“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?”
“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
“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.”
“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”
“Everybody seems to think I’m lazy I don’t mind, I think they’re crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there’s no need.”
“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
“Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends.”
“Nobody loves you when you’re down and out.”
“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be...”
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.”
“How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?”
“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.”
“Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.”
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
“There are places I’ll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I’ve loved them all.”
“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...”
“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”
“I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.”
“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.”
“When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.”
“Remember to let her into your heart.”
“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 on watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”
“When you cross the street, take my hand.”
“Art is only a way of expressing pain.”
“Tell the truth and make it rhyme.”
“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.”
“Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.”
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
“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.”
“I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore.”
“I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.”
“Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn’t matter much to me.”
“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”
“Money can’t buy me love.”
“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”
“You can only breathe out if you breathe in.”
“When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn’t I don’t care.”
“Instant Karma is going to get you.”
“Whatever gets you through the night.”
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
“Women should be obscene and not heard.”
“Violence begets violence, you know. And you can’t kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We’d have to kill off the government.”
“Before Elvis there was nothing.”
“There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.”
“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.”
“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”
“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.”
“I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.”
“I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That’s my attitude toward life. So I don’t have any romanticism about any part of my past.”
“For those of you in the cheap seats I’d like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!”
“We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now.”
“Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.”
“The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: ‘Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?’”
“You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?”
“I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.”
“I can’t play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.”
“What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?”
“When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.”
“Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.”
“The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group – we all took it together – was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.”
“Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It’s all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.”
“I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it’s fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you’re left with great precision.”
“We’re crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That’s just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.”
“Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I’ll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.”
“A working class hero is something to be.”
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