Famous phrases by John Lennon, unforgettable quotes and aphorisms of this British singer-songwriter, composer and singer of the Beatles musical group.
Quotes John Lennon
- When I was younger, I liked to think that the world was at my feet, that it owed me something. When you're young, that's how you see it.
- Do not be afraid of being afraid. Yes, I am often afraid and not afraid of being afraid, and it is not scary at all.
- I never said I was a pure soul. I never claimed to have life answers. I can't meet the expectations people have in me because they are illusory.
- We live in a world where we hide to make love, while violence and hatred spread in the light of the Sun.
- Love is a promise, love is a memory, once given it cannot be forgotten, it can never disappear.
- Many of those who complained that we had received the MBE had also received it for acts of heroism in the war, that is, for killing people. We received this award because we had fun with people. I would say that we deserved more, don't you think?
- A dream you do alone remains only a dream. A dream made together with others becomes reality.
- I believe in God, but not as a thing, not as an old man in heaven. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Muhammad and Buddha and everyone else said was right. The problem is that the translations have been done wrong.
- Life is what happens to you when you are all intent on making other plans.
- If the Beatles or the sixties had a message, it was this: learn to swim. Point. And once you've learned, go swimming. People who remained anchored to the Beatles and the dream of the sixties lost sight of the horizon as soon as the Beatles and the sixties became the horizon. Carrying them all your life would be like carrying Glenn Miller and the Second World War. By this I do not mean that one cannot listen with pleasure to Glenn Miller or the Beatles, but living inside that dream means choosing the way of the sunset.
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- Count your life from smiles, not from tears. Count your age from friends, not from years.
- Everyone loves you when you are two meters underground.
- Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, the other side thinks I'm Almighty God.
Aphorisms John Lennon
- When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody notices it, don't be sad. Because the sun offers a beautiful show every morning, however most of the audience is still sleeping.
- The biggest pain is not being wanted, realizing that your parents don't need you when you need them. When I was a child I experienced moments when I didn't want to see ugliness, I didn't want to see that I wasn't wanted. This lack of love has entered my eyes and my mind. I have never been truly desired. The only reason I became a star is my repression. Nothing would have brought me to this if I had been "normal".
- When I was five years old, my mother kept telling me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school they asked me how I wanted to be when I was grown up. I wrote "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
- Rock'n’roll was real. Everything else was unreal. When I was fifteen, it was the only thing of all that could get to me.
- People spend a lot of time trying to be someone else, I think this triggers terrible diseases.
- It is strange not to be strange.
- The more reality you have, the more unreal the world becomes.
- I believe in everything until I am proven wrong. So I believe in fairies, myths, dragons. Everything exists, even if it is in your mind. Who can say that dreams and nightmares are not as real as the present?
- During the next song, you sit in the cheapest places, clap your hands, for the others it is enough to jingle the jewels.
- The answer is love and you can be sure that love is a flower, you have to let it grow.
- There are two fundamental motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we back out of life.When we are in love, we open ourselves to everything that life offers us with passion, excitement and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot open ourselves to the love of others. All hopes for a better world are in the courage and open-hearted vision of people who welcome life.
- If art were to redeem man, it could only do so by redeeming him from the responsibilities of life, restoring him to an unexpected childhood.
- We are more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know who will die first between Rock and Roll and Christianity.
John Lennon phrases
- When I was a Beatle, I thought we were the best group in this damned world. And believing it made us who we were! I grew up. I no longer believe in father figures, such as God, Kennedy or Hitler. I am no longer looking for a guru. I am no longer looking for anything. There is no research, there is no road to take, there is nothing. This is how things are. We will probably continue writing music forever.
- Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity.
- You can wear a mask or paint your face, you can even consider yourself part of the human race, you can put on a collar and a tie, but one thing you can't hide is when you're rotten inside.
- If being self-centered means believing in what I do and in my art or in my music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I say it.
- The woman is the slave of slaves. We force her to put on her face and dance. We insult her every day on television. And then we ask ourselves why he no longer has courage or security.
- There is nothing you can do that cannot be done. There is nothing you can sing that it is not possible to sing.
- The most difficult thing is to deal with yourself. It is easier to shout "revolution" and "power to the people" than to look inside and find out what is true and what is false ... this is the difficult thing.
- If anyone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must be left in the 1960s, this is a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
- When I grow up I want to be happy.
- Music belongs to everyone. Only publishers think it belongs to them.
- I don't believe in killing, whatever the reason.
- Anyone can be successful. If you keep repeating it quite a few times you can have it too.
- If everyone asked for peace instead of another television, then there would be peace.
- You don't need anyone to tell you who you are or what you are. Be what you are!
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
