John Lennon

I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

I thought of nothing else but rock ‘n’ roll; apart from sex and food and money–but that’s all the same thing, really.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don’t know anything.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

If gold rust what shall the iron do?

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.