John Lennon 1940-1980
Photo by Roy Kerwood

Famous Lennon Quotes

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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The more I see the less I know for sure.
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You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
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John Lennon - Strawberry Fields

Quotes About Rock'n'Roll

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
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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.
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
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You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
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John Lennon - In Memory

Quotes About Love

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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All you need is love.
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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Everything is clearer when you're in love.
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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
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John Lennon Stamp

Quotes About Life

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
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Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
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The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
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John Lennon Quotes About Peace

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
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Quotes About God

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
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You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
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