I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate. — 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
We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim! — John Lennon Copy Share Image
At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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