Top 100 Quotes About 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
#2. A lot of stories about me getting into trouble start with a girl.
Kelley Armstrong
#4. I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
Sean Lennon
#5. Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.
John Lennon
#6. 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
#8. What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
Annie Leibovitz
#10. 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
#11. 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
#15. Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
John Lennon
#16. Doing fine. Watching shadows on the wall.
John Lennon
#17. I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind
John Lennon
#18. 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
#19. There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be ...
John Lennon
#20. 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
#21. Everything is true and not true about everything. That's one thing I've learned.
John Lennon
#22. And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
John Lennon
#23. I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
John Lennon
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. I am the eggman
They are the eggmen!
I am the walrus!
John Lennon
#27. You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.
Lennon Parham
#28. 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
#29. I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
Sean Lennon
#30. I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
Bryan Ferry
#31. 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
#32. I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.
Julian Lennon
#33. After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
John Lennon
#34. What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
John Lennon
#35. I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
Sean Lennon
#36. The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.
John Lennon
#37. Holy shit. Holy. Fucking. Shit. I'm not sure if I have said this before but this girl is going to kill me. -Mechony Davis
J.M. Lennon
#38. 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
#39. She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.
John Lennon
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change
Julian Lennon
#45. Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.
Thomas Lennon
#46. The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
John Lennon
#47. We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
John Lennon
#48. You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.
Andrew Lennon
#49. Writing studio movies is the best job in the world ... it's awesome.
Thomas Lennon
#50. 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
#51. Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon
#52. John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
Brenda Lee
#53. I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'
Julian Lennon
#54. There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.
Sean Lennon
#55. 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
#56. Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.
Sean Lennon
#57. We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
John Lennon
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.
Sean Lennon
#61. I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.
Julian Lennon
#63. Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
John Lennon
#64. I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.
John Lennon
#66. Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
John Lennon
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
Esai Morales
#73. I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.
Thomas Lennon
#74. Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
John Lennon
#75. 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
#76. Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
John Lennon
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
Peter Fonda
#82. 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
#83. You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.
John Lennon
#84. I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
Lennon Parham
#85. 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
#86. We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.
Lennon Parham
#87. There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!
John Lennon
#88. Everything is as important as everything else.
John Lennon
#89. 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
#90. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
John Lennon
#91. Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon
#92. Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon
#93. 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
#94. 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
#96. When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
John Lennon
#97. 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
#98. My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#99. I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Yancy Butler
#100. I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
Sean Lennon
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