976 Quotes by John Lennon

Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.

I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, 'You're great.' We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, “turn on and drop out, man” - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.