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Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

But I can be alone without Yoko, but I just have no wish to be. There's no reason on earth why I should be alone without Yoko. There's nothing more important than our relationship, nothing. And we dig being together all the time. Both of us could survive apart but what for? I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love for any whore or any friend or any business, because in the end you're alone at night and neither of us want to be. And you can't fill a bed with groupies. It doesn't work. I don't want to be a swinger. I've been through it all and nothing works better than to have someone you love hold you. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Thomas Lennon

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years. — Thomas Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down ... Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Roger Meddows Taylor

After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him! — Roger Meddows Taylor

Lennon Quotes By Kevin Brockmeier

She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was feeling strong her favorite was John, and on days when she was feeling weak her favorite was George, perhaps because there was a vulnerability to John that she was afraid to indulge without an armor of her own vitality around her. — Kevin Brockmeier

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

New York is what Paris was in the twenties ... the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth ... I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Lester Bangs

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. — Lester Bangs

Lennon Quotes By Julian Lennon

I'm not one for flings, I can tell you that. — Julian Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Austin Grossman

Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights). — Austin Grossman

Lennon Quotes By Paul McCartney

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

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Randy Bachman

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed. — Randy Bachman

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Liam Gallagher

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

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Thomas Lennon

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive. — Thomas Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By J. Robert Lennon

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

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Megan Stine

I pride myself on being able to read whole chapters into a single syllable, you know? What girl doesn't? So when Lennon said "Hi", I ran through a whole list of possibilities. Was it, "Hi, I wish you were Chloe instead of Riley so I could make up with you"? Or did he mean, "You look exactly like the girl I'm totally over, so get out of my sight"? Or was it just, "Hi, I hope you're not as down on me as your sister is and, by the way, could you be careful not to spill anything, either"? But none of those sounded right. Finally I had to admit that he might have just been trying to say hello. Call me crazy, but it could be true! — Megan Stine

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man? — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Love is a flower you got to let it grow. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense. — Billy Boyd

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Don Henley

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him ... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.' — Don Henley

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I wanna hold your gland. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of "experts" who made them up in the first place. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when u find that other half.
They did not tell us that we were born as whole, and that no-one in our lives deserve to carry on his back such responsibility of completing what is missing on us: we grow through life by ourselves. If we have a good company it's just more pleasant. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it ... and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Lennon Parham

When we're on Twitter, we're not only live tweeting episodes and talking about behind-the-scenes stuff, we actively try to respond to everybody. — Lennon Parham

Lennon Quotes By Julian Lennon

Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a fool out of people. I have to watch it a little bit, because I caught that habit from him. I was really fond of him. He was my idol. — Julian Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.' — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Sean Lennon

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day. — Sean Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Zadie Smith

When, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Jerome had played his parents an ethereal, far more beautiful version of 'Hallelujah' by a kid called Buckley, Kiki had thought yes, that's right, our memories are getting more beautiful and less real every day. And then the kid drowned in the Mississippi, recalled Kiki now, looking up from her knees to the colourful painting that hung behind Carlene's empty chair. Jerome had wept: the tears you cry for someone whom you never met who made something beautiful that you loved. Seventeen years earlier, when Lennon died, Kiki had dragged Howard to Central Park and wept while the crowd sang 'All You Need is Love' and Howard ranted bitterly about Milgram and mass psychosis. — Zadie Smith

Lennon Quotes By Martin Scorsese

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

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Sean Lennon

When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter, — Sean Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Sean Lennon

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word "clean" takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don't be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy. — Sean Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Julian Lennon

I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews. — Julian Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Julian Lennon

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me. — Julian Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Julian Lennon

You never know how your work is going to be received. — Julian Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Thomas Lennon

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan. — Thomas Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Thomas Lennon

I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters. — Thomas Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Allen Saunders

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. — Allen Saunders

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Whatever gets you through the night — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Jamie Kain

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.'
'John Lennon,' I say with a sigh. 'My mother is a huge fan.'
'So then you must know that every day, in every way, it's getting better. — Jamie Kain

Lennon Quotes By Moby

A very tall bearded guy was standing in a doorway, smoking a cigarette. "Hey", he said.
"Hi," I said. "Excuse me, do you rehearse here?"
"Yeah," he said, extending his hand and saying, almost formally, "Gibby Haynes. I'm in the Butthole Surfers."
I shook his hand. "Moby," I said. "I just moved upstairs."
"Are you an artist?"
"No, a musician."
"Oh, cool. Welcome to the building."
"Do you know who else has spaces here?" I asked.
"Well, there's us and Iggy and Sonic Youth and Helmet and Sean Lennon and the Beastie Boys and some other people," he said as someone behind him started making a wall of feedback. — Moby

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn't see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Adrian McKinty

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

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can ... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I was the walrus, but now I am John ... and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Turn left at Greenland.... — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Alan Goldsher

Before John could even get through the first verse, who bursts through the door and jumps right into the fray, lips a'kissin' and hips a'wigglin'? That's right, kids, everbody's favorite zombie hunter. Mick Jagger strode right up to John, raised his arms to the sky, and said, 'O zombie Lennon! It ends here. — Alan Goldsher

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Julian Lennon

I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. But to me he wasn't a musician or a peace icon, he was the father I loved and who let me down in so many ways. After the age of five, when my parents separated, I saw him only a handful of times, and when I did he was often remote and intimidating. I grew up longing for more contact with him but felt rejected and unimportant in his life.
... While Dad was fast becoming one of the wealthiest men in his field, Mum and I had very little and she was going out to work to support us. — Julian Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

A working class hero is something to be. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Cynthia Lennon

John was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who had him in stitches with his jokes. — Cynthia Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Julian Lennon

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then ... I have to do it; I don't have a choice. — Julian Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

It's weird not to be weird. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Your inside is out and your outside is in. — John Lennon

Lennon Quotes By Thomas Lennon

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film. — Thomas Lennon

Lennon Quotes By John Lennon

Don't hate what you don't understand! — John Lennon