John Lennon (1940-1980)

Quotes

• Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

• Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

• When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, we'd have peace.

• You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.

• Apathy isn’t it. We can do something. So flower power didn’t work. So what. We start again.

• Before Elvis, there was nothing.

• Lots of people who complained about us recieving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war--for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. Wouldn't you?

• All we are saying is give peace a chance.

• Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

• We're more popular than Jesus now; I dont know which will go first; rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

• There's a great woman behind every idiot.

• Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

• The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

• Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

• Just turn left at Greenland...

• Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

• Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

• When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.

• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.