John Lennon

We gave up everything just to sit at your table.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

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

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.

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.

There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'

I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.