976 Quotes by John Lennon

There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

Peace and love are eternal

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now -​ and a Beatles record -​ and we've been way apart,​ you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!