Top 100 Quotes About John Lennon
#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
#3. Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.
John Lennon
#4. When I get older losing my hair many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?
John Lennon
#7. I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.
John Lennon
#8. 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
#11. Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
John Lennon
#12. Doing fine. Watching shadows on the wall.
John Lennon
#13. I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind
John Lennon
#14. I'd had the picture of John Lennon in my room all the time I was at gymnas and proceeded to hang it on the wall behind the typewriter.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#15. There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be ...
John Lennon
#16. My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
John Lennon
#17. Everything is true and not true about everything. That's one thing I've learned.
John Lennon
#18. And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
John Lennon
#19. I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
John Lennon
#20. When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said:
'do you want me to get them off the car?'
and Lennon replied: 'No - they paid for it, they can wreck it
John Lennon
#21. When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.
John Lennon
#22. I am the eggman
They are the eggmen!
I am the walrus!
John Lennon
#23. We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.
John Lennon
#24. I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
Bryan Ferry
#25. People think you want them to do something or say something special ... you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.
John Lennon
#26. After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
John Lennon
#27. What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
John Lennon
#28. The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.
John Lennon
#29. I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.
John Lennon
#30. She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.
John Lennon
#31. The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.
John Lennon
#32. 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
#33. It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
John Lennon
#34. 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
#35. The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
John Lennon
#36. We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
John Lennon
#37. 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
#38. Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon
#39. John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
Brenda Lee
#40. Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?
John Lennon
#41. We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
John Lennon
#42. We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine-and potentially evil.
John Lennon
#43. I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ, perhaps. I would have loved to record with John Lennon. He was a dear friend. I had lunch with him just two days before he died.
Rick Wakeman
#45. Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
John Lennon
#46. I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.
John Lennon
#48. Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
John Lennon
#49. I look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that's what was so fabulous about him - he was very down to earth.
Kiki Dee
#50. I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.
John Lennon
#51. Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
Madonna Ciccone
#52. To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
Noel Gallagher
#53. For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!
John Lennon
#54. I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
Esai Morales
#55. Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
John Lennon
#56. The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
John Lennon
#57. Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
John Lennon
#58. I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.
John Lennon
#59. It's mostly just you have to convince yourself that there's nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!
Grant Morrison
#60. In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.
John Lennon
#61. I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
John Lennon
#62. I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.
John Lennon
#63. You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.
John Lennon
#64. I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.
Mark David Chapman
#65. There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!
John Lennon
#66. Everything is as important as everything else.
John Lennon
#67. I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.
John Lennon
#68. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
John Lennon
#69. Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon
#70. Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon
#71. When I write, there are times
not always
when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
Paul McCartney
#72. But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.
John Lennon
#74. When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
John Lennon
#75. The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.
John Lennon
#76. I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Yancy Butler
#77. Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.
John Lennon
#78. We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she's young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb
John Lennon
#79. People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.
Mike Love
#80. One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you
John Lennon
#81. There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
John Lennon
#82. Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m
John Lennon
#83. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
John Lennon
#84. I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.
John Lennon
#85. I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.
John Lennon
#87. George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them
Paul McCartney
#88. 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
#89. I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me.
John Lennon
#90. All this bit about angels and all the different religions, it's based on something. I think anything's possible. I believe in everything until it's disproved.
John Lennon
#91. Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today ...
John Lennon
#92. Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from some fully imagined universe, of which we only get to see this haunting, enticing sliver. I utterly love it.
J. Robert Lennon
#94. If I were John Lennon
And my feelings for you grew,
I'd have left The Beatles
To spend all my time with you
Lisa Swerling
#95. I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.
John Lennon
#96. Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping ...
John Lennon
#97. I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.
John Lennon
#98. The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was, and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public ... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.
John Travolta
#100. That love is all, that love is everyone
It is knowing, it is knowing
John Lennon
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