When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.


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When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm d...
JOHN LENNON
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
JOHN LENNON
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle you...
JOHN LENNON
I'm not afraid of dying. To me dying is like getting out of one car and into another.
JOHN LENNON
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessorie...
JOHN LENNON
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, ...
JOHN LENNON
I am the Eggman, they are the Eggmen, I am the Walrus
JOHN LENNON
Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed,
JOHN LENNON
Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep...
JOHN LENNON
if in doubt f*** it
JOHN LENNON
New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in th...
JOHN LENNON
If there's anything that you want, / If there's anything I can do, / Just call on me, / And I'll sen...
JOHN LENNON
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to t...
JOHN LENNON
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON
…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll o...
JOHN LENNON
Love is a flower you got to let it grow.
JOHN LENNON
Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON
A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back togethe...
JOHN LENNON
Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
JOHN LENNON
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere ...
JOHN LENNON
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
JOHN LENNON
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
JOHN LENNON
Because it's so weird
JOHN LENNON
The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a ...
JOHN LENNON
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I ge...
JOHN LENNON
I get by with a little help from my friends
JOHN LENNON
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
JOHN LENNON
All You Need Is Love
JOHN LENNON
Love is you; you and me
JOHN LENNON
All these places have their moments - with lovers and friends - I still can recall some are dead and...
JOHN LENNON
Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the people...
JOHN LENNON
sometimes all i can feel is a sadness so deep - it hardly becomes known to me
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot
JOHN LENNON
If I ate it would go right to my knee.
JOHN LENNON
We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.
JOHN LENNON
Canada is America without being American without that … ‘We-are-the-mighty-whatever scene.’ Ca...
JOHN LENNON
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
JOHN LENNON
A working-class hero is something to be.
JOHN LENNON
You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You ...
JOHN LENNON