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
Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you. — 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
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are… — 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
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
You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like… — 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
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
Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal… — 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
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort… — 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
What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of… — 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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