- We are all water from
- different rivers
- That's why it's so easy to to meet
- We are all water in this vast,
- vast ocean
- Someday we'll evaporate
- together.
JOHN LENNON, We Are All Water
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.... You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
JOHN LENNON, ATV interview, Dec. 2, 1969
We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war — all forms of violence. People just accept it ... [but] We're all responsible for everything that goes on, you know, we're all responsible for Biafra and Hitler and everything. So we're just saying "SELL PEACE" — anybody interested in peace just stick it in the window. It's simple but it lets somebody else know that you want peace too, because you feel alone if you're the only one thinking "wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed." So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.
JOHN LENNON, The David Frost Show, Jun. 14, 1969
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.
JOHN LENNON, KFRC RKO Radio interview, Dec. 8, 1980
When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko.
JOHN LENNON, Playboy interview, Jan. 1981
When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?"
JOHN LENNON, Playboy interview, Jan. 1981
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON, Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
JOHN LENNON, Evening Standard, Mar. 4, 1966
I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
JOHN LENNON, news conference, Aug. 11, 1966
- Christ, you know it ain't easy
- You know how hard it can be.
- The way things are going,
- they're going to crucify me.
JOHN LENNON, Ballad of John and Yoko
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
- Whatever gets you through the night.
- It's alright. It's alright.
JOHN LENNON, Whatever Gets You Through the Night
What’s Bagism? It’s like... a tag for what we all do, we’re all in a bag ya know, and we realised that we came from two bags, I was in this pop bag going round and round in my little clique, and she was in her little avant-garde clique going round and round, and you’re in your little tele clique and they’re in their...ya know? and we all sort of come out and look at each other every now and then, but we don’t communicate. And we all intellectualize about how there is no barrier between art, music, poetry... but we’re still all "I’m a rock and roller, he’s a poet" ... so we just came up with the word so you would ask us what bagism is, and we’d say "WE’RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!"
JOHN LENNON, The David Frost Show, Jun. 14, 1969
- There's room at the top I'm telling you still
- but first you must learn how to smile as you kill
- if you want to be like the folks on the hill.
JOHN LENNON, Working Class Hero
I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.
JOHN LENNON, Playboy interview, Jan. 1981
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever fucking made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
JOHN LENNON, Playboy interview, Jan. 1981
Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.
JOHN LENNON, ATV interview, Dec. 2, 1969
- As I play the game of life
- I try to make it better each and every day.
- And when I struggle in the night
- The magic of the music seems to light the way.
- You may say I'm a dreamer,
- but I'm not the only one,
- I hope some day you'll join us,
- And the world will be as one.
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