Quotes By John Lennon

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

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.

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.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

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?

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

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?

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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?

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

All you need is love.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

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

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

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

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.

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

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.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

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.