Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom. — 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'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received… — 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
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
Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their… — 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
if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better… — 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
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status… — 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
People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up… — 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
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
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
It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or… — 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
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
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
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they… — 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
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
If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state… — 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
There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But… — 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
It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began… — 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
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I… — 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 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
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
That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake… — 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
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