All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

— John Lennon

John Lennon Quotes

Limitless undying love, which shines around me like a million suns, calls me on and on across the universe.

— John Lennon
Music True Love Falling in Love Love for Him

Nobody loves you when you’re down and out.

— John Lennon
Sad Sad About Life Lonely

Love is real, real is love.

— John Lennon
Real Love Is Love for Him I Love You

The sun is up, the sky is blue It’s beautiful, and so are you.

— John Lennon
Romantic About Songs Thinking of You Good Morning for Her

I don’t know how much money I’ve got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I’ve lost the bit of paper.

— John Lennon

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

— John Lennon

You’re born in pain and pain is what we’re in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

— John Lennon

Imagine there’s no varmints. It isn’t hard to do.

— John Lennon

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

— John Lennon

We were cowards when we sacked him.

— John Lennon

The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.

— John Lennon

Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don’t understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.

— John Lennon

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

— John Lennon

Music’s all right John, but you’ll never make a living out of it.

— John Lennon

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.

— John Lennon

And Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, ‘That’s it! Do that again!’ In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that – both playing into each other’s noses.

— John Lennon

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It’s no fun being an artist. You know what it’s like, writing, it’s torture.

— John Lennon
Fun

I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I think it’s realistic, and it’s true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking ‘I’m gonna do that’ but I actually won’t do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

— John Lennon
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