Quotes by John Lennon

John Lennon

John Lennon

British musician

Lived from: 1940 - 1980

Category: Music Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 9 october 1940 Died: 8 december 1980

  • We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

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  • Life is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans.
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  • All we are saying is give peace a chance.
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  • All you need is love.
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  • And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
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  • As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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  • 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.
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  • Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
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  • God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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  • He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
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  • I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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  • I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
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  • I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
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  • I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
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  • If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
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  • If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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  • If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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  • Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
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  • Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
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  • Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
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  • Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
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What are the most famous quotes from John Lennon?

The two most famous quotes from John Lennon are:

  • "Life is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans."
  • "All we are saying is give peace a chance.
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When did John Lennon live?

John Lennon was born in 1940 and died in the year 1980.