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
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it” — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Link Wray and Gene Vincent… two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll. — 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
Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I… — 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… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but… — 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
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'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of… — 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
I've got used to the fact - just about - that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say but… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Ringo is Ringo, that's all there is to it. And he's every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That… — 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
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 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
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