I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it. — 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
Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet… — 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
We all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've… — 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
There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the… — 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
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
Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's… — 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
The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you… — 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
As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I… — 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
I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was… — 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
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop… — 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've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that… — 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
Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to… — 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
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