Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it. — 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
I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like… — 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've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly… — 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
In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)… — 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
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
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
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
From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes.… — 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
I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the… — 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 always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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… — 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
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
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
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until… — 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
Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are… — 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
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
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono.… — 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
The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days;… — 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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