John Lennon Quotes

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them.

I believe time wounds all heels.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

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?

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

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

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

All you need is love.

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.

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.

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

Instant Karma is going to get you.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.