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Music 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,…
- For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get…
- 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…
- When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me,…
- Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that
- I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control
- We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has…
- As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The…
- Music is everybody's possession.
- The magic of the music seems to light the way.
- I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
- People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
- Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.
- The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
- Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- All you need is love.
- When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help…
- We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- 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…
- There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
- Before Elvis there was nothing.
- I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists…
- Elvis died the day he went into the army.
- The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
- The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
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