Quotes from John Lennon

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

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

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

I still believe that all you need is love.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think Wow how did I get here?

rain, I don't mind

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when u find that other half. They did not tell us that we were born as whole, and that no-one in our lives deserve to carry on his back such responsibility of completing what is missing on us: we grow through life by ourselves. If we have a good company it's just more pleasant.

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn't matter much to me.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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.

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? 'I am the carpenter….

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

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

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

We insult her everyday on TV And wonder why she has no guts or confidence When she's young we kill her will to be free While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.