John Lennon Quotes
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251. “I didn’t leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party’s over.”

— John Lennon

252. “What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

254. “All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.”

— John Lennon

255. “Peace and love are eternal.”

— John Lennon

256. “The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.”

— John Lennon

257. “When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don’t know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.”

— John Lennon

258. “The women are very important too, we can’t have a revolution that doesn’t involve and liberate women. It’s so subtle the way you’re taught male superiority.”

— John Lennon

259. “The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.”

— John Lennon

260. “Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there’s a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.”

— John Lennon

261. “There is an alternative to war. It’s staying in bed and growing your hair.”

— John Lennon

262. “I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.”

— John Lennon

263. “I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They’re all saying the same thing -? and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said -? the basic things he laid down about love and goodness -? and not what people say he said.”

— John Lennon

264. “As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.”

— John Lennon

265. “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

266. “As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.”

— John Lennon

267. “I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever’s going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.”

— John Lennon

268. “I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.”

— John Lennon

269. “It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?”

— John Lennon

270. “Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.”

— John Lennon

271. “Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don’t come, we’ll be standing in the English rain.”

— John Lennon

272. “Leave a space and something will fill it.”

— John Lennon

273. “I can’t speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.”

— John Lennon

274. “Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

276. “There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.”

— John Lennon

277. “I’m not really a career person; I’m a gardener, basically.”

— John Lennon

278. “I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I think it’s realistic, and it’s true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.”

— John Lennon

279. “When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.”

— John Lennon

280. “I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.”

— John Lennon

281. “I once was the walrus, now I’m John.”

— John Lennon

282. “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

283. “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

284. “You feel alone if you’re the only one thinking ‘wouldn’t it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.’ So advertise yourself that you’re for peace if you believe in it.”

— John Lennon

285. “I wouldn’t say I was a born writer; I’m a born thinker.”

— John Lennon

286. “I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing ‘All together now’ – that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up ‘Give peace a chance’ because I had written it with that in mind really.”

— John Lennon

287. “The world went mad and used us as an excuse.”

— John Lennon

288. “I’ve never voted. I’ve never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.”

— John Lennon

289. “The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”

— John Lennon

290. “In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.”

— John Lennon

291. “I’m really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it’s very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.”

— John Lennon

292. “There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.”

— John Lennon

293. “In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn’t see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way.”

— John Lennon

294. “Music’s all right John, but you’ll never make a living out of it.”

— John Lennon

295. “If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don’t go after it.”

— John Lennon

296. “I’ve always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.”

— John Lennon

297. “Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”

— John Lennon

298. “Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.”

— John Lennon

299. “Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don’t understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon