I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together -… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there… — John Lennon Copy Share
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't… — John Lennon Copy Share
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote… — John Lennon Copy Share
If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live… — John Lennon Copy Share
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. — John Lennon Copy Share
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon Copy Share
I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious… — John Lennon Copy Share
Songwriting 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… — John Lennon Copy Share
The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked… — John Lennon Copy Share
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