John Lennon Quotes

John Lennon (77)

Birth:	9th October, 1940
Death:	8th December, 1980
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist, Founder, Musician, Singer, Writer, Lyricist

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

  John Lennon

• 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.

  John Lennon

• We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

• We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

  John Lennon

• These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

  John Lennon

• There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

  John Lennon

• 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.

  John Lennon

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

  John Lennon

• The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

  John Lennon

• 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?

  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.

  John Lennon

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

  John Lennon

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

  John Lennon

• 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.

  John Lennon

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

  John Lennon

• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

  John Lennon

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

  John Lennon

• 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?

  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.

  John Lennon

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

  John Lennon