John Quotes

"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.

Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

I don't mind looking to the camera -​ it's people that throw me.

I know I hurt you then But that was way back when.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

They'll never be able to forget us.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

It made me high. It really did.

I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with love from me to you.

I don't believe in Beatles.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that

Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow.

Sitting on a cornflake, Waiting for the van to come...

I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.

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.

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

I've never really been wanted.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.