Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. John Lennon More Quotes by John Lennon More Quotes From John Lennon Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do? John Lennon who-cares underestimate long I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is. John Lennon white believe thinking In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. John Lennon acid cases political At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness. John Lennon bullshit religious christian All I want is the truth, just give me some truth John Lennon give-me want giving Life happens whilst you're planning other things. John Lennon life-happens planning happens I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this. John Lennon taken said God is a concept by which we measure our pain. John Lennon concepts pain If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land. John Lennon mountain land dream I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything. John Lennon joints real sitting If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time. John Lennon wasted-time enjoyed ifs Life's what happens when you're making other plans. John Lennon background-noise parenthood busy I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl. John Lennon howl guitar play Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity. John Lennon rock-and-roll jesus thinking I've got used to the fact - just about - that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling. John Lennon ballet dancing would-be The greatest artists always come round to simplicity. John Lennon simplicity rounds artist The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko. John Lennon filled-in weekend lines It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage. John Lennon chickens choices eating I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles. John Lennon magic believe jesus The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money. John Lennon things-in-life want bird