Quotes from John Lennon

Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.

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?

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

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