Top 30 Best John Lennon Song Quotes

#1. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.

George Benson

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#2. I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.

John Lennon

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#3. Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

John Lennon

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#4. Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.

John Lennon

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#5. Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

John Lennon

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#6. When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Jose Gonzalez

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#7. Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that 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

John Lennon

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#8. Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

John Lennon

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#9. I get by with a little help from my friends.

John Lennon

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#10. There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all

John Lennon

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#11. There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.

John Lennon

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#12. I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

John Lennon

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#13. 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

John Lennon

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#14. I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

John Lennon

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#15. I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

Sean Lennon

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#16. I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

John Lennon

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#17. You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.

Sophal Ear

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#18. Bridget reckons John Lennon wrote a song about her. I'm guessing it was 'Give Peace a Chance'.

Bridget Golightly

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#19. I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

John Lennon

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#20. When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

John Lennon

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#21. Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

John Lennon

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#22. Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

Jason Mraz

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#23. We all shine on ... like the moon and the stars and the sun ... we all shine on ... come on and on and on ...

John Lennon

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#24. I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it ... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.

John Lennon

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#25. Remember to let her into your heart.

John Lennon

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#26. I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

John Lennon

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#27. People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school.

Aminatta Forna

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#28. When John Lennon left the Beatles and started making music with Yoko Ono, many people scoffed at the idea. How could this talented man with so many hit songs give it all up? Well, we all know it was love, but beyond that, it was a leap of faith to try something new.

Ashley Bryan

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#29. It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life ... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

John Lennon

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#30. With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

Noel Gallagher

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