John Lennon Quotes [part 2]

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. 

So I believe in fairies, 

the myths, dragons. It all exists, 

even if it’s in your mind. 

Who’s going to say that dreams and nightmares 

aren’t as real as the here and now? 

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” 

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, 

not as an old man in the sky. 

I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. 

I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed 

and Buddha and all the rest said was right. 

It's just that the translations have gone wrong.” 

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

“I get by with a little help from my friends.”

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 love humanity, it's people I can't stand.” 

“I made the decision at sixteen or seventeen that what I did,  

I wanted everybody to see. 

I wasn’t going after the aestheticism of the monastery 

or the lone artist who supposedly 

doesn’t care what people think about his work. 

I care a lot about whether people hate it or love it, 

because it hurts me when they hate it, or hate me, 

and it’s pleasing when they like it. 

That’s just the predicament of being an artist.” 

“I put things down on sheets of paper

 and stuff them in my pockets. 

When I have enough, I have a book.” 

“I still believe that all you need is love.”

“I used to think that the world 

was doing something to me, 

that the world owed me something. 

And that either the conservatives 

or the socialists or the fascists 

or the communists or the Christians 

or the Jews or the fascists 

were doing something to me. 

And when you're a teeny-booper, 

that's what you think. 

I'm 40 now, I don't think that anymore

because I found out it doesn't fucking work. 

I am part of them. There's no separation. 

Were all one. "Give peace a chance," 

not "Shoot people for peace."

"All you need is love." I believe it. 

It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.” 

“I was asked in an interview 

which was more important: money or love?

I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, 

he wouldn't understand the answer.” 

“I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore” 

“I was the walrus, 

but now I am John...

and so my friends, 

you'll just have to carry on. 

The dream is over.” 

“I wasn't saying whatever 

they're saying I was saying. 

I'm sorry I said it really. 

I never meant it to be a 

lousy anti-religious thing. 

I apologize if that will make you happy. 

I still don't know quite what I've done.

I've tried to tell you what I did do 

but if you want me to apologize, 

if that will make you happy, 

then OK, I'm sorry.” 

“I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group 

and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.” 

“If being an egomaniac means 

I believe in what I do and in my art or music, 

then in that respect you can call me that... 

I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” 

“If everyone demanded peace 

instead of another television set, 

then there'd be peace.”

“If someone thinks that peace and love

are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s,

 that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.” 

“If there hadn't been an Elvis, 

there wouldn't have been the Beatles.” 

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

“If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, 

you have to learn to smile while you kill” 

“If you wanna be a hero, well Just Follow ME.” 

“I'm not afraid of death 

because I don't believe in it.

It's just getting out of one car, 

and into another.” 

“I'm not going to change the way I look 

or the way I feel to conform to anything. 

I've always been a freak. 

So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, 

you know. I'm one of those people.” 

“I'm not going to sacrifice love, 

real love, for any fuckin' war 

or any friend, or any business, 

because in the end you're alone at night.” 

"Imagine"