Quotes By John Lennon

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

The more I see the less I know for sure.