Quotes By John Lennon

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.

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

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Produce your own dream. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

There are no problems, only solutions.

What we've got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we'll sink.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasseth 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.

We're all Christ and we're all Hitler. We are trying to make Christ's message contemporary. We want Christ to win. What would he have done if he had advertisements, T.V., records, films and newspapers? The miracle today is communication. So Let's use it.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.

I've made two 'discoveries' in my life: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I think that's a pretty damned good choice.

The separation didn't work out.

My name's not John Beatle, it's John Lennon.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

Elvis really died the day he joined the army. That's when they killed him, and the rest was a living death.

Before Elvis there was nothing.