If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim! — John Lennon Copy Share Image
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it… — 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
The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When I get older losing my hair many years from now, Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I've got used to the fact - just about - that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse… — 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
We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.'… — 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
If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start…” quote by John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a56/john-lennon-322_artistic_if-sean-doesn-t-see-me-a-few-days-or-if_1065306.jpg)
![“We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's…” quote by John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/512/john-lennon-322_america_we-went-to-america-a-few-times-and-brian_12070.jpg)
