976 Quotes by John Lennon

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

I want it to sound like an orange.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.