Quotes from John Lennon

Make love, not war.

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.

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

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.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

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.

They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

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.

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Give us a kiss

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you