Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Nobody loves you when you're down and out... Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground... — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Love is promise. love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. — 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
What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie? — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill… — 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
