Famous John Lennon quotes

You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You do not need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.
- John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
- John Lennon

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
- John Lennon

Love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep on watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon

Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends.
- John Lennon

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.
- John Lennon

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.
- John Lennon

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon

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.
- John Lennon

It's amazing how low you go to get high.
- John Lennon

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it’s happening.
- John Lennon

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
- John Lennon

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
- John Lennon

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
- John Lennon

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
- John Lennon

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.
- John Lennon

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

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.
- John Lennon