💬 John Lennon Quotes

[Kathy - AUS]

"I haven't got the patience to practise to become a "perfect" guitarist, you know. I'm more interested in the combination of my voice and the guitar I know, and to write songs, than I am in the instrument. So, I never go through a day hardly without playing it whether I'm performing or not, you know.

John Lennon in 1963 for the Light Programme's The Public Ear

 

[BeatleMark]

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

 

[lorrluvssu]

“It’s still up to us to make what we can of it, it’s not out of our control, I still believe in love, peace. I still believe in positive thinking. When I can do it, I’m not always positive, but when I am, I try to project it.” -John Lennon 1980

 

[Ingryd Medeiros]

"It's more painful to try and not to be yourself, you know? People do spend a lot of time trying to be somebody else all the time, you know, and I think it leads to terrible diseases and things like that."

— John Lennon for Jonathan Cott, December 5, 1980.

 

[Ingryd Medeiros]

"I'm aware (that people is frightened by me) but it's only because people believe what they read and no one has ever written the truth about me. I used to get very impatient, I used to make them feel uncomfortable but I don't bother anymore. Be nice!"

ㅡ John Lennon in 1966.

 

[Good Dog Nigel]

“My biography now reads, ‘Born, lived and met Yoko.’”

John in 1971.

 

[Ingryd Medeiros]

"Don't ask me what's going on in the world because the cynics will attack me and some people will act as if God has spoken. The people I am trying to reach are in between. I hope they judge for themselves."

ㅡ John Lennon for Robert Hilburn, 1980.

 

[John]

"Thank you all very much, you've got a lucky face."
His acceptance speech for the award he won for his first book, at Foyle's Literary luncheon.

 

[melina]

"I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.We're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends." - John Lennon, 1968

 

[Starshyne9]

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” - John Lennon, 1969.

 

[Ingryd Medeiros]

"No one I think is in my tree."

As an autistic person, this phrase means a lot to me.

 

[Ingryd Medeiros]

"We do not die completely until the last person on earth who remembers us dies."

— John Lennon for Tony Barrow in 1963.

 

[Kathy - AUS]

"When I did that charity at Madison Square Garden, I was still riding high on 'Imagine' so I was OK for material. But when I did 'Come Together' the house came down, which gave me an indication of what people wanted to hear. At the time I was thinking I didn't want to do all that Beatles - but now I feel differently. I've lost all that negativity about the past and I'd be happy as Larry to do 'Help'. I've just changed completely in two years. I'd do 'Hey Jude'

March 1975
Melody Maker

 

[Ingryd Medeiros]

"The only way to ensure a lasting peace of any kind is to change people's minds. There's no other way. The Government can do it with propaganda - why can't we?"

 

[Ingryd Medeiros]

"I’m a cynic about most things that are taken for granted. I’m cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I’m not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That’s why I don’t really want to be labelled a cynic."

— John Lennon for Look Magazine, 1966.

 

[Ingryd Medeiros]

"I believe in reincarnation and that things get better every time. Even if this time there is a lot of crap in a person, next time there will be a little less crap. We will have to get over it."

John Lennon for Maurice Hindle, December 2, 1968.

 

[lennonliveson]

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

 

[ecclesofficial]

“Well, you see, if I knew the secrets of what is right and wrong… I wish we all knew the secrets. Nobody really knows, that’s the point.“

John, December 8th, 1980