Lennon Quotes

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I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

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

The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.

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.

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

Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.

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.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.

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".

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

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!

Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

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

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

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.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!

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

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.

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

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

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.