JOHN LENNON QUOTES II

British singer/songwriter (1940-1980)

John Lennon

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My role in society, or any artist 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.

JOHN LENNON
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interview, KFRC RKO Radio, December 8, 1980


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Tags: artists


Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

JOHN LENNON

"Mother"


Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever

JOHN LENNON

"Strawberry Fields Forever"


I really thought that love would save us all.

JOHN LENNON

attributed, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 1980

Tags: love


Leave a space and something will fill it.

JOHN LENNON

All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono


It's only sane to be insane
Psychotic builds a castle
And neurotic lives in it
I don't know what to do with my sanity
When the world's at the verge of calamity

JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO

"O'Sanity"

Tags: sanity


There's room at the top I'm telling you still
but first you must learn how to smile as you kill
if you want to be like the folks on the hill.

JOHN LENNON

"Working Class Hero"


One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

JOHN LENNON

"Crippled Inside"


That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

JOHN LENNON

BBC interview with David Wigg, May 8, 1969

Tags: humor


Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like. Okay?

JOHN LENNON

statement to the press, July 1969


My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

JOHN LENNON

interview, Playboy, September 1980


God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

JOHN LENNON

"God"

Tags: God


One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that's what I resent. I didn't know, I didn't foresee. It happened bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.

JOHN LENNON

Rolling Stone, January 7, 1971


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


It's amazing how low you go to get high.

JOHN LENNON

"The Art of Deception is in the Eye of the Beholder", Skywriting by Word of Mouth


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


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 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


Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

JOHN LENNON

The Beatles Anthology

Tags: beauty


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