John Lennon was born on 8 October 1940 in Liverpool, England. His parents, who were workers, divorced when Lennon was two years old. Raised by his aunt (Mary “Mimi” Smith) and uncle, Lennon was only able to see his father twice in 20 years. When he was in high school in 1957 (when he was 17), his mother gifted him his first guitar.
Here we listed best, top, significant John Lennon (The Beatles) quotes for you
John Lennon Quotes
‘”Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones”‘,
‘”How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?”‘,
‘”It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.”‘,
‘”I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”‘,
‘”Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.”‘,
‘”Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.”‘,
‘”Before Elvis there was nothing.”‘,
‘”Imagine all the people living life in 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 be as one.”‘,
‘”As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”‘,
‘”If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!”‘,
‘”When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.”‘,
‘”I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”‘,
‘”We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”‘,
‘”There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life.”‘,
‘”War is over… If you want it.”‘,
‘”Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.”‘,
‘”As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it’s happening.”‘,
‘”The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”‘,
‘”Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”‘,
‘”If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.”‘,
‘”You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact.”‘,
‘”Nobody controls me. I’m uncontrollable. The only one who controls me is me, and that’s just barely possible.”‘,
‘”God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”‘,
‘”Only by trying on other people’s clothes do we find what size we are.”‘,
‘”If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”‘,
‘”We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”‘,
‘”For those of you in the cheap seats I’d like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!”‘,
‘”Living is easy with eyes closed.”‘,
‘”I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”‘,
‘”You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we’re beginning to look like each other.”‘,
‘”Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.”‘,
‘”All I want is the truth, just give me some truth”‘,
‘”You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”‘,
‘”I don’t know which will go first- rock ‘n’ roll or christianity.”‘,
‘”Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”‘,
‘”Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.”‘,
‘”There’s an alternative to violence. It’s to stay in bed and grow your hair.”‘,
‘”When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care.”‘,
‘”Imagine … Imagine no religion.”‘,
‘”If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”‘,
‘”One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.”‘,
‘”The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.”‘,
‘”It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.”‘,
‘”If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.”‘,
‘”There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”‘,
‘”Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”‘,
‘”Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”‘,
‘”When you’re drowning you don’t think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I’m drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.”‘,
‘”You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.”‘,
‘”There’s nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.”‘,
‘”All we are saying is give peace a chance.”‘,
‘”It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.”‘,
‘”Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.”‘,
‘”Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”‘,
‘”Time wounds all heels.”‘,
‘”One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”‘,
‘”I’m not really a career person; I’m a gardener, basically.”‘,
‘”I’ve never really been wanted.”‘,
‘”Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”‘,
‘”Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.”‘,
‘”I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”‘,
‘”My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn’t know how to cry. Simple.”‘,
‘”Do not need a gun to blow your mind””‘,
‘”Trying to please everybody is impossible – if you did that, you’d end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You’ve just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.”‘,
‘”When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.”‘,
‘”Art is only a way of expressing pain.”‘,
‘”Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.”‘,
‘”What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.”‘,
‘”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.”‘,
‘”There is an alternative to war. It’s staying in bed and growing your hair.”‘,
‘”I don’t believe in yesterday, by the way.”‘,
‘”Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.”‘,
‘”Everything is as important as everything else.”‘,
‘”Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”‘,
‘”A dream you dream alone is only a dream.”‘,
‘”If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”‘,
‘”Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”‘,
‘”Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.”‘,
‘”So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?”‘,
‘”Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”‘,
‘”You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.”‘,
‘”Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.”‘,
‘”I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”‘,
‘”Love is like a flower – you have to let it grow.”‘,
‘”When you cross the street, take my hand”‘,
‘”Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”‘,
‘”Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.”‘,
‘”paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness”‘,
‘”Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.”‘,
‘”Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.”‘,
‘”Happiness is a good vibe for peace.”‘,
‘”Happiness is inside you, not with another person”‘,
‘”Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them”‘,
‘”You may say i am a dreamer, but I am not the only one”‘,
‘”The eagle picks my eye, The worm he licks my bone, I feel so suicidal, Just like Dylans Mr. Jones, Lonely wanna die, If I aint dead already, Ooh girl you know the reason why.”‘,
‘”Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”‘,
‘”Sun in the east, Moon in the west, This boat’s moving slow, There’s no land in sight at all, Away we go’,
‘”Happiness is just how you feel when you do not feel miserable.”‘,
‘”Grow old along with me, Two branches of one tree, Face the setting sun, When the day is done, God bless our love”‘,
‘”We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections”‘,
‘”The more I see the less I know for sure.”‘,
‘”I see the wind, oh I see the trees, Everything is clear in my heart, I see the clouds, oh I see the sky, Everything is clear in our world”‘,
‘”Today I love you more than yesterday, Right now I love you more right now”‘,
‘”Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.”‘,
‘”The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.”‘,
‘”I’m in your pocket,, You’re in my locket,, And we’re so lucky in every way, We make a wish, And let it come true for us,’,
‘”Everything is as important as everything else.”‘,
‘”Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.”‘,
‘”Instant Karma is going to get you.”‘,
‘”Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.”‘,
‘”Tell the truth and make it rhyme”‘,
‘”There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.”‘,
‘”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… You…”‘,
‘”The sun is up, the sky is blue It is beautiful, and so are you.”‘,
‘”Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved I took my loved one to a big fiel”‘,
‘”Love is the Answer. What was the Question?”‘,
‘”Some people say it’s over, Now that we spread our wings, But we know better darling, The hollow ring is only last year’s echo”‘,
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