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| John Lennon Quotes |
John Lennon Biography
- Full Name : John Winston Ono Lennon
- Born : October 9, 1940 (Liverpool, England)
- Dead : December 8, 1980 (New York City, New York, U.S.)
- Nationality : British
- Profession : Artist, Musician and Song Writer
- Awards :
- Grammy Award
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Facts About John Lennon :
- The Beatles are one of the most commercially successful band of all time.
- John Lennon formed his band "The Beatles" in the 1950s
- The best lyric John Lennon ever wrote : "All You Need Is Love"
- John Lennon was the first Beatle to get married.
- John Lennon was the last Beatle to learn how to drive.
- Lennon was shot and killed outside of his apartment building in New York by a former fan.
John Lennon Quotes
1. “ Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need. ”
— John Lennon
2. “ Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. ”
— John Lennon
3. “ Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. ”
— John Lennon
4. “ There is an alternative to war. It’s staying in bed and growing your hair. ”
— John Lennon
5. “ Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. ”
— John Lennon
6. “ A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. ”
— John Lennon
7. “ Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered. ”
— John Lennon
8. “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
9. “ Happiness is just how you feel when you don’t feel miserable. ”
— John Lennon
10. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. ”
— John Lennon
11. “ I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another. ”
— John Lennon
12. “ Art is only a way of expressing pain. ”
— John Lennon
13. “ It’s weird not to be weird. ”
— John Lennon
14. “ The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets. ”
— John Lennon
15. “ Everything is as important as everything else. ”
— John Lennon
16. “ There are no problems, only solutions. ”
— John Lennon
17. “ I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. ”
— John Lennon
18. “ Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends. ”
— John Lennon
19. “ You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. ”
— John Lennon
20. “ Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. ”
— John Lennon
21. “ Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like. ”
— John Lennon
22. “ Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real. ”
— John Lennon
23. “ Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ”
— John Lennon
24. “ There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.” ”
— John Lennon
25. “ Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it. ”
— John Lennon
26. “ A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it. ”
— John Lennon
27. “ Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. ”
— John Lennon
28. “ Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. ”
— John Lennon
29. “ Everything is clearer when you’re in love. ”
— John Lennon
30. “ Before Elvis there was nothing. ”
— John Lennon
31. “ Living is easy with eyes closed. ”
— John Lennon
32. “ Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. ”
— John Lennon
33. “ If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. ”
— John Lennon
34. “ There’s an alternative to violence. It’s to stay in bed and grow your hair. ”
— John Lennon
35. “ It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. ”
— John Lennon
36. “ If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal. ”
— John Lennon
37. “ 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. ”
— John Lennon
38. “ One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside. ”
— John Lennon
39. “ One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me. ”
— John Lennon
40. “ When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind. ”
— John Lennon
41. “ If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence. ”
— John Lennon
42. “ Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it. ”
— John Lennon
43. “ What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink. ”
— John Lennon
44. “ You’re all geniuses, and you’re all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. ”
— John Lennon
45. “ 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. ”
— John Lennon
46. “ I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book. ”
— John Lennon
47. “ I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That’s my attitude toward life. So I don’t have any romanticism about any part of my past.”
— John Lennon
48. “ You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we’re beginning to look like each other. ”
— John Lennon
49. “ When you do something 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
50. “ Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. ”
— John Lennon
51. “ Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. ”
— John Lennon
52. “ Only by trying on other people’s clothes do we find what size we are. ”
— John Lennon
53. “ I’m not really a career person; I’m a gardener, basically. ”
— John Lennon
54. “ When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care. ”
— John Lennon
55. “ God is a concept by which we measure our pain. ”
— John Lennon
56. “ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”
— John Lennon
57. “ We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. ”
— John Lennon
58. “ Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ”
— John Lennon
59. “ 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. ”
— John Lennon
60. “ Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ”
— John Lennon