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Quotes from The Beatles Anthology — John Lennon

1940–1980 England

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14 quotes

I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

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.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD, by the way.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

Everything is as important as everything else.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

They brought out LSD to control people, and what they did was give us freedom.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

I think a label like "avant-garde" defeats itself. You learn to have avant-garde exhibitions. The very fact that avant-garde can have an exhibition defeats the purpose of avant-garde, because it's already formalised and ritualised.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

I respect churches because of the sacredness that's been put on them over the years by people who do believe. But I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Lennon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.