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.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
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 live as one.
Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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.
I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it.It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.
One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.
Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it
The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.
Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones
I was the walrus, but now I am John…and so my friends, you’ll just have to carry on. The dream is over.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the sun…we all shine on…come on and on and on…
It doesn’t matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!
You, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
You tell me it’s the institution.Well, you know, you’d better free you mind instead.But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right?
They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you’re so clever and classless and freeBut you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see
The sun is up, the sky is blueIt’s beautiful, and so are you
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it’s unknown and it’s plain sailing.
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that…. Accept that it’s unknown and it’s plain sailing.
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it’s unknown and it’s plain sailing.
People think the Beatles know what’s going on. We don’t. We’re just doing it.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.
Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I 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 that, you know. I’m one of those people.
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.