John Lennon

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.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

Love is needing to be loved.

All you need is love.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.