John Lennon quotes - page 5

You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, live peace, and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like. (John Lennon)
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.
John Lennon
There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
John Lennon
[In regard to conscription] "I was always thinking I could go to Southern Ireland if it came to it [but] I didn't know what I was going to do there, I hadn't thought that far."
John Lennon
Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.
John Lennon
Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful. [specific citation needed].
John Lennon
For the benefit of Mr. Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline.
John Lennon
I think a label like "avant-garde" defeats itself. You learn to have avant-garde exhibitions. The very fact that avant-garde can have an exhibition defeats the purpose of avant-garde, because it's already formalised and ritualised.
John Lennon
I've sold my soul to the devil.
John Lennon
We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.
John Lennon
What's Bagism? It's like... a tag for what we all do, we're all in a bag ya know, and we realised that we came from two bags, I was in this pop bag going round and round in my little clique, and she was in her little avant-garde clique going round and round, and you're in your little tele clique and they're in their...ya know? and we all sort of come out and look at each other every now and then, but we don't communicate. And we all intellectualise about how there is no barrier between art, music, poetry... but we're still all "I'm a rock and roller, he's a poet" ... so we just came up with the word so you would ask us what bagism is, and we'd say "WE'RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!" (John Lennon)
All that business was awful, it was a fuckin' humiliation. One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that's what I resent. I didn't know, I didn't foresee. It happened bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand - the people you hated when you were ten.
John Lennon
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me. Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever.
John Lennon
So keep on playing those mind games together Doing the ritual dance in the sun... Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel.
John Lennon
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.
John Lennon
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.
John Lennon
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.
John Lennon
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
John Lennon
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
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Nothing is real.
John Lennon
"You grow with music, or the music outgrows you." - attributed to Lennon, but no verifiable source found. (John Lennon)
We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds.
John Lennon
Whatever gets you through the night.
John Lennon
Remember to let her into your heart.
John Lennon
Please don't spoil my day; I'm miles away and, after all, I'm only sleeping.
John Lennon