A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

 
you dream together is reality.  John Lennon  The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver
John Lennon  wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may Everyone wants a piece of you. 
All we are saying is give peace a chance.  say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope John Lennon 
John Lennon  someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. 
John Lennon The thing the sixties did was to show us the
All you need is love.  possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It
John Lennon  It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the
my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.  possibility. 
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.  John Lennon  John Lennon 
John Lennon 
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake There's nothing you can know that isn't known. 
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?  John Lennon 
argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. John Lennon  Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. 
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know John Lennon 
which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.  Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and
John Lennon  ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.  We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation,
John Lennon  a ship going to discover the New World. And the
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship. 
ground.  Life is what happens while you are busy making other John Lennon 
John Lennon  plans. 
John Lennon  We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know
Everything is clearer when you're in love.  which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. 
John Lennon  Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love John Lennon 
is a flower, you've got to let it grow. 
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.  John Lennon  We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious
John Lennon  plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.  cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps John Lennon  You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really
love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and look after it and nurture it. 
get shot or something.  Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers John Lennon 
John Lennon  who think that people own it. 
John Lennon  When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've incredibly pleased if someone would have the
made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to foresight to notice me drowning and come and help
and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people me,' you just scream. 
fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a John Lennon 
all those things. But he is my biggest pride.  reflection of us all. 
John Lennon  John Lennon  Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. 
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I Our society is run by insane people for insane John Lennon 
believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for
even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and
nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?  insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about the sun. 
John Lennon  it.  John Lennon 
John Lennon 
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or
man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part what you are. You are what you are! 
something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and of me thinks I'm God Almighty.  John Lennon 
Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was John Lennon 
right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.  You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. 
John Lennon  Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths John Lennon 
of the problem. 
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!  John Lennon  You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.
John Lennon  And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. 
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.  John Lennon 
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or John Lennon 
Christianity.  You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever
John Lennon  Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own
married. I'm not interested in being hip.  God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate. 
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I John Lennon  John Lennon
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 Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I
that, you know. I'm one of those people.  realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity.
John Lennon  Surrealism to me is reality. 
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 The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take
call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.  drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories
John Lennon  to normal living to live? I mean, is there something
wrong with society that's making us so pressurized,
If everyone demanded peace instead of another that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against
television set, then there'd be peace.  it? 
John Lennon  John Lennon 
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred
must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his on me. However, few escape that distinction. 
problem. Love and peace are eternal.  John Lennon 
John Lennon 
The more I see the less I know for sure. 
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you John Lennon