My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it. John Lennon More Quotes by John Lennon More Quotes From John Lennon A working class hero is something to be. John Lennon laborheroclass I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep. John Lennon songmorningmeaningful I want it to sound like an orange. John Lennon orangesoundwant Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. John Lennon love-yourselfthings-in-lifeinspirational Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal. John Lennon gunanimalideas Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either. John Lennon geniuscrazythinking All you need is love. John Lennon musicinspirationallove And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young. John Lennon christmasfunyears Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real. John Lennon kingsmotivationalinspirational Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible. John Lennon uncontrollablesuccessmotivational Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it. John Lennon motivationallovelife Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable. John Lennon inspirationallovelife 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. John Lennon motivationalinspirationalreality If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. John Lennon new-yorkinspirationallife 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. John Lennon rock-and-rollrocksjesus It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that. John Lennon abortionenoughbelieve I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this. John Lennon takensorryjesus I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me. John Lennon ferris-buellerbelieve-in-mebelieve When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. John Lennon inspirationallovelife I get by with a little help from my friends. John Lennon songbest-friendfriendship
