Top 400 John Lennon Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don’t appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It’s the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison – it’s garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.”

— John Lennon

202. “I can’t remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.”

— John Lennon

203. “Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go.”

— John Lennon

204. “I really thought that love would save us all.”

— John Lennon

205. “Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.”

— John Lennon

206. “I want it to sound like an orange.”

— John Lennon

207. “I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.”

— John Lennon

208. “Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

210. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.”

— John Lennon

211. “It’s like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.”

— John Lennon

212. “Don’t let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can’t do you know harm to feel your own pain.”

— John Lennon

213. “Imagine all of us living in peace, it’s too beautiful to just be a dream.”

— John Lennon

214. “You can’t give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can’t be with them enough. There’s no such thing.”

— John Lennon

215. “You don’t have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.”

— John Lennon

216. “Strawberry fields forever.”

— John Lennon

217. “Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.”

— John Lennon

218. “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

219. “Your inside is out and your outside is in.”

— John Lennon

220. “It’s amazing how low you go to get high.”

— John Lennon

221. “We had one thing in common – we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn’t answer everything and it’s like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.”

— John Lennon

222. “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

223. “Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.”

— John Lennon

224. “You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.”

— John Lennon

225. “Ringo isn’t the best drummer in the world. He isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.”

— John Lennon

226. “There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.”

— John Lennon

227. “It’s just natural, it’s not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it’s The End of The Earth. It’s only a rock group that split up, it’s nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.”

— John Lennon

228. “Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them.”

— John Lennon

229. “I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn’t go around shouting about it.”

— John Lennon

230. “If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.”

— John Lennon

231. “We’re playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds, playing the mind guerilla.”

— John Lennon

232. “I’ve never really been wanted.”

— John Lennon

233. “All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it’s still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.”

— John Lennon

234. “Happiness is just how you feel when you don’t feel miserable.”

— John Lennon

235. “Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We’re pacifists, but I’m not sure what it means when you’re such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.”

— John Lennon

236. “How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.”

— John Lennon

237. “I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”

— John Lennon

238. “The artist’s role isn’t to tell people how to feel, but reflect.”

— John Lennon

239. “Love is a promise; love is a souvenir...”

— John Lennon

240. “From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.”

— John Lennon

241. “The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that’ll be the time to worry. Not before.”

— John Lennon

242. “Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.”

— John Lennon

243. “It looks like I’m going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -? so they promise. And I believe it, too.”

— John Lennon

244. “I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night.”

— John Lennon

245. “I never listen to the radio. If it’s bad, I make fun of it, and if it’s good, I get jealous that I didn’t think of it.”

— John Lennon

246. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.”

— John Lennon

247. “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

248. “Getting out of one car and getting into another.”

— John Lennon

249. “Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.”

— John Lennon

250. “The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that’s all.”

— John Lennon