If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget… They invented LSD to control… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves? — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once? — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there… — John Lennon Copy Share
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't… — John Lennon Copy Share
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote… — John Lennon Copy Share
If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live… — John Lennon Copy Share
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. — John Lennon Copy Share
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon Copy Share
I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious… — John Lennon Copy Share
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let… — John Lennon Copy Share
The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked… — John Lennon Copy Share
![“Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.” quote by John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aeb/john-lennon-322_bowls_yoko-ono-was-showing-me-some-of-these-ha_3031330.jpg)
