John Lennon Quotes

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John Lennon

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 9, 1940

I believe time wounds all heels.

John Lennon

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

John Lennon

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.

John Lennon

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

John Lennon

The more I see the less I know for sure.

John Lennon

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

John Lennon

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.

John Lennon

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.

John Lennon

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

John Lennon

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

John Lennon

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

John Lennon

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.

John Lennon

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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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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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

John Lennon

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

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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

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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?

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

John Lennon