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John Lennon Quotes (113 quotes)

“I don't know how much money I've got... I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.”
―John Lennon

“I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.”
―John Lennon

“If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was "Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!".”
―John Lennon

“We've been on our peace gig, as we call it, for a year solid. And people say, 'Do you think it's having any effect?' I can't answer that. It's like asking me in the Cavern, 'Are you gonna make it?' In the back of my mind I thought, I'm gonna make it, but I couldn't lay it on the line. And I think that peace is more tangible than Beatles.”
―John Lennon

“I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money-but that's all the same thing, really.”
―John Lennon

“I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.”
―John Lennon

“You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you'.”
―John Lennon

“We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.”
―John Lennon

“When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze... and I always got a little violent on drink... So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it...”
―John Lennon

“The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.”
―John Lennon

Source/Notes:
As quoted in "All you need is love to dismantle an atomic bomb: how the Beatles and U2 changed the world" by Todd McFliker, Continuum, 2007, p. 160 - ISBN: 9780826427762

“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”
―John Lennon

“For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty-it would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better...”
―John Lennon

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John Lennon

John Lennon

Born: October 9, 1940

Died: December 8, 1980 (aged 40)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Musician, artist, writer

Bio: John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.

Born on October 9

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