Quotes from John Lennon

Everything is true and not true about everything. That's one thing I've learned.

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

I wanna hold your gland.

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, don't be sad. Sunrise is a beautiful spectacle but without a doubt the greater part of the audience is still asleep.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

People are just uptight because the kids are having fun. They didn't have the same freedom because they didn't take it; they just followed the lives laid down by their parents. And they're jealous of the people who didn't do that.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.

We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

We make her bear and raise our children And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen We tell her, home is the only place she should be Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love? I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer.

Those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands, and those of you in the balcony can just rattle your jewelry.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

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

imagine a world without people

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love

Men hide to make love but practice violence in daylight

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see