“They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.”
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Famous John Lennon Quotes
“Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.”
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”
“It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.”
Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends”
Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.”
“Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”
“There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.”
“Art is only a way of expressing pain.”
Source: Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon
“Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.”
“Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.”
Source: Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon
Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.”