Quotes By John Lennon

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

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

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

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

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

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

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?