Top 40 Quotes About Lennon Mccartney
#1. Please rehearse new material," Brian's telegram said. They chose to interpret this as "please write new material" and, in this instant, the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership was effectively reborn.
Mark Lewisohn
#2. Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration ... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.
Peter Jackson
#3. Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.
Rachel Vincent
#4. It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".
Gordon Lightfoot
#5. In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
Tom Robbins
#6. In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.
Anthony Bourdain
#8. The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had ... his photocopier ...
Humphrey Lyttelton
#9. The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
Paul McCartney
#10. This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
Paul McCartney
#12. 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
Chris Cornell
#13. Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
Jason Mraz
#14. Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#15. I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
Paul McCartney
#16. It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.
H.P. Lovecraft
#17. When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter,
Sean Lennon
#18. In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction.
A.M. Willard
#19. 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
#20. Love is all you need" - The Beatles -
"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make"
- The Beatles -
The Beatles
#21. There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.
Robin McKinley
#22. Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need.
John Lennon
#23. '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
#24. 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
#25. There's still a part of her that's waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain.
David Levithan
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people.
But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right
there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
Paul McCartney
#30. Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
Patrick Stump
#31. It's like John Lennon writing with ... Taylor Swift instead of Paul McCartney.
Rainbow Rowell
#32. As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.
Rick Wakeman
#33. Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.
Jake Bugg
#34. Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#35. One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
Nathaniel Rateliff
#36. Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.
John Lennon
#37. There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
Rick Springfield
#39. In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.
Roberto Azevedo
#40. To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.
John Lennon
