Top 400 John Lennon Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Life happens while we are making other plans.”

— John Lennon

102. “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.”

— John Lennon

103. “At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.”

— John Lennon

104. “Happiness is inside you, not with another person.”

— John Lennon

105. “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.”

— John Lennon

106. “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.”

— John Lennon

107. “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.”

— John Lennon

108. “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.”

— John Lennon

109. “Love is real, real is love.”

— John Lennon

110. “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.”

— John Lennon

111. “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.”

— John Lennon

112. “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.”

— John Lennon

113. “Happiness is a good vibe for peace.”

— John Lennon

114. “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.”

— John Lennon

115. “Imagine.”

— John Lennon

116. “Come together, right now.”

— John Lennon

117. “Nobody controls me. I’m uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that’s barely possible.”

— John Lennon

118. “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

119. “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

120. “It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult – even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.”

— John Lennon

121. “All I want is the truth, just give me some truth.”

— John Lennon

122. “If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.”

— John Lennon

123. “Elvis died the day he went into the army.”

— John Lennon

124. “Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock ‘n’ Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – Rock and Roll or Christianity.”

— John Lennon

125. “What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.”

— John Lennon

126. “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

127. “One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you.”

— John Lennon

128. “The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.”

— John Lennon

129. “Life is what happens to you while you’re planning on doing something else.”

— John Lennon

130. “You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.”

— John Lennon

131. “Happiness is a warm gun.”

— John Lennon

132. “Love is the Answer. What was the Question?”

— John Lennon

133. “When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.”

— John Lennon

134. “Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.”

— John Lennon

135. “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

136. “A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted...”

— John Lennon

137. “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.”

— John Lennon

138. “I cannot be what I am not.”

— John Lennon

139. “Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.”

— John Lennon

140. “Don’t need a gun to blow your mind.”

— John Lennon

141. “Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like These.”

— John Lennon

142. “I want you to make love, not war, I know you’ve heard it before.”

— John Lennon

143. “No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.”

— John Lennon

144. “Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.”

— John Lennon

145. “Mother, you had me, but I never had you.”

— John Lennon

146. “I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!”

— John Lennon

147. “The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.”

— John Lennon

148. “We’re trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it’s the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn’t just inevitable to have violence. Not just war – all forms of violence.”

— John Lennon

149. “I’ll give you everything I’ve got for a little peace of mind.”

— John Lennon

150. “You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.”

— John Lennon