976 Quotes by John Lennon

In my case I’ve never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We’re pacifists, but I’m not sure what it means when you’re such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

I’m always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren’t that doable.

Everybody’s talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don’t understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock ‘n’ Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – Rock and Roll or Christianity.

I’m a moldy moldy man I’m moldy thru and thru I’m a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I’m moldy til my eyeballs I’m moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I’m such a humble Joe.

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