Top 400 John Lennon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Remember to let her into your heart.”

— John Lennon

52. “The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.”

— John Lennon

53. “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.”

— John Lennon

54. “Art is only a way of expressing pain.”

— John Lennon

55. “When you cross the street, take my hand.”

— John Lennon

56. “Tell the truth and make it rhyme.”

— John Lennon

57. “Money can’t buy me love.”

— John Lennon

58. “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”

— John Lennon

59. “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

60. “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.”

— John Lennon

61. “I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”

— John Lennon

62. “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

— John Lennon

63. “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.”

— John Lennon

64. “I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore.”

— John Lennon

65. “Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.”

— John Lennon

66. “I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”

— John Lennon

67. “Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.”

— John Lennon

68. “Instant Karma is going to get you.”

— John Lennon

69. “You can only breathe out if you breathe in.”

— John Lennon

70. “Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”

— John Lennon

71. “Whatever gets you through the night.”

— John Lennon

72. “A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.”

— John Lennon

73. “Women should be obscene and not heard.”

— John Lennon

74. “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.”

— John Lennon

75. “A working class hero is something to be.”

— John Lennon

76. “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.”

— John Lennon

77. “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.”

— John Lennon

78. “Before Elvis there was nothing.”

— John Lennon

79. “There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.”

— John Lennon

80. “You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”

— John Lennon

81. “Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.”

— John Lennon

82. “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

83. “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.”

— John Lennon

84. “We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now.”

— John Lennon

85. “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

86. “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.”

— John Lennon

87. “The sun is up, the sky is blue It’s beautiful, and so are you.”

— John Lennon

88. “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!”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

90. “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.”

— John Lennon

91. “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.”

— John Lennon

92. “Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.”

— John Lennon

93. “Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.”

— John Lennon

94. “The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: ‘Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?’”

— John Lennon

95. “Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.”

— John Lennon

96. “I can’t play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.”

— John Lennon

97. “You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?”

— John Lennon

98. “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.”

— John Lennon

99. “What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?”

— John Lennon

100. “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.”

— John Lennon