John And Yoko Quotes

#1. Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

Yoko Ono

#2. When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#3. To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

Paul McCartney

#4. When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

John Lennon

#5. Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

John Lennon

#6. Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare.

Philip Norman

#7. I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Paul McCartney

#8. After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

Yoko Ono

#9. Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

John Lennon

#10. My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Yoko Ono

#11. I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

John Lennon

#12. We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

John Lennon

#13. Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

Madonna Ciccone

#14. John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

Yoko Ono

#15. In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.

John Lennon

#16. John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Yoko Ono

#17. When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

Yoko Ono

#18. Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

Yoko Ono

#19. 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

#20. I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

John Lennon

#21. We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

Denis Leary

#22. There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

John Lennon

#23. People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

Charles Hazlewood

#24. I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

Yoko Ono

#25. I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Yancy Butler

#26. Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.

John Lennon

#27. There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

John Lennon

#28. It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

David

#29. The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time.

Adrian McKinty

#30. 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

#31. The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

Yoko Ono

#32. Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

Paul McCartney

#33. Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

Patrick Stump

#34. Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,

Yoko Ono

#35. DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.

Martin Scorsese

#36. I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

John Lennon

#37. "I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."

John Lennon

#38. They'd retreated to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. People could pound the walls all they wanted, but they'd never find the door. Nobody could guess at the gardens inside.

Janet Fitch