Top 400 John Lennon Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “It looks like I’m going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -? so they promise. And I believe it, too.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

253. “And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let’s stop all the fight.”

— John Lennon

254. “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

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

— John Lennon

256. “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

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

— John Lennon

258. “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

259. “I’ve always been politically minded and against the status quo. It’s pretty basic when you’re brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.”

— 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. “You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

263. “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

264. “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

265. “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

266. “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

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

— John Lennon

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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

274. “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

275. “Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

277. “Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It’s like being possessed.”

— John Lennon

278. “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

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

281. “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

282. “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

283. “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

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

— John Lennon

285. “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

286. “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

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

— John Lennon

288. “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

289. “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

290. “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

291. “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

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

294. “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

295. “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

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

298. “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

299. “I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon