Quotes By John Lennon

There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet ... not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. ... You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed [to] B E A because ... B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed ... the E to an A. And it meant two things then. ... When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.

War is over ... If you want it.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

I've always been politically minded and against the status quo.

The only way to deal with critics is to go over their heads direct to the public.

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that.

The Beatles music died then, as musicians. That's why we never improved as musicians; we killed ourselves then to make it. And that was the end of it.

It just seemed natural for us, if we made an album together, for both of us to be naked.

I no longer believe in myth, and Beatles is another myth. The dream is over.

I like rock and roll, man, I don't like much else.

The Beatles gave everything they had to give, and more. Going back to the Beatles would be like going back to school.