Quotes from John Lennon

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with love from me to you.

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that.... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving 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.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.