John Lennon Quotes

52 quotes

British musician (1940–1980)

“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”

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

on Peace

"All we are saying is give peace a chance."

on Peace

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

on Friendship

"Having gone through the Beatle Mania thing, nowadays it's nothing like that. I can walk down the street and somebody says, 'Oh hi John,' and they usually say, 'How's your immigration?' They don't hassle me. Now it's like heaven."

on The Beatles

"We didn't break up because we weren't friends; we just broke up out of shared boredom. Boredom creates tension."

on The Beatles

"Our only ax was we were the first working-class singers that stayed working class and pronounced it. The only change was our image."

"You can't tell people anything; they have to find out for themselves. You can leave signposts saying it's dangerous here, but in reality, it's no good telling people anything."

"If I tell them to go jump in a river just because they buy my record, it doesn't work that way."

"I like to live in the land of the free. This is where the music came from, this is what influenced my whole life."

on United States

"I don't miss the Beatle Mania. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it."

on The Beatles

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."

on Wisdom

"It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!"

on Love

"You, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one."

on Dreams

"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"

on Philosophy

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."

on Humor

"War is over ... If you want it."

on Peace

"I am he As you are me And we are all together."

on Identity

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

on Art

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."

on Love

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

on Time

Quotes on John Lennon

What others have said about John Lennon

"It's all nasty business when people get shot."

— George Harrison

"We'll meet again somewhere down the line."

— George Harrison

"John and I wrote about 300 songs together, and we never had a dry session. We always finished something."

— Paul McCartney

"I wanted to make a song where I actually said, 'I love you too, John,' and that was the idea behind it."

— Paul McCartney

"Having a collaborator is great because if you get stuck, you can just say, 'What do you think of this?' and kick it around together."

— Paul McCartney