Quotes from John Lennon

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

Money can't buy me love.

I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

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.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.