I still believe that all you need is love.
Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.
I'll probably be popped off by some loony. His reply when asked in the 1960's how he expected he would die.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. Royal Variety Performance in London (4 November 1963) attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. John had intended to say "fucking jewelry", but was persuaded against doing so by Paul McCartney and the group's manager Brian Epstein.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
Women should be obscene and not heard.