JOHN LENNON QUOTES III

British singer/songwriter (1940-1980)

John Lennon

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Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

JOHN LENNON
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"Across the Universe"


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Tags: universe


It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

JOHN LENNON

interview with David Wigg, Scene and Heard, October 25, 1971

Tags: The Beatles


If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

JOHN LENNON

The Dick Cavett Show, September 24, 1971

Tags: drugs


I really thought that love would save us all.

JOHN LENNON

attributed, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 1980

Tags: love


I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

JOHN LENNON

Life Magazine, September 13, 1968


We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.

JOHN LENNON

interview, Playboy, January 1981

Tags: freedom


The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

JOHN LENNON

Life Magazine, September 13, 1968

Tags: The Beatles


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.

JOHN LENNON

"What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?", The Beatles Anthology

Tags: society


I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

JOHN LENNON

interview with RKO Radio on the day of his murder, December 8, 1980


I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."

JOHN LENNON

interview, Playboy, January 1981


Children, Don't do what I have done
I couldn't walk so I tried to run

JOHN LENNON

"Mother"


We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA.
Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA.
NUTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.
NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic.
All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.
As two ambassadors of NUTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.

JOHN LENNON

Declaration of Nutopia, co-signed with Yoko Ono, April 1, 1973


I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together

JOHN LENNON

"I Am the Walrus"


Christ, you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going,
they're going to crucify me.

JOHN LENNON

"Ballad of John and Yoko"


I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can.

JOHN LENNON

interview, Rolling Stone, 1980


Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

JOHN LENNON

The Beatles Anthology

Tags: beauty


We know how to behave! We've had lessons.

JOHN LENNON

A Hard Day's Night


Everything is as important as everything else.

JOHN LENNON

The Beatles Anthology


All we are saying is give peace a chance!

JOHN LENNON

"Give Peace a Chance"

Tags: peace


Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

JOHN LENNON

The Beatles Anthology

Tags: happiness