John Lennon Quotes

Before Elvis there was nothing.

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• No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Equal
  • Supreme
  • Elvis

• Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Guitar
  • Pickup
  • Elvis

• U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about...

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • People
  • Religion
  • Elvis

• I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Beatles
  • Elvis
  • Salvador Dali

• I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love them.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Love
  • Artist
  • Elvis

• I did two movies with Elvis, and both times not only was he was an absolute joy, but the experience itself was wonderful. He was extremely professional-always on time, knew his lines, and was very much a part of the cast, never pulling rank as the star.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Elvis

• Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Symbol
  • Elvis

• I feel bad about Lil Wayne going to jail, because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.

  

  Bun B
  • Music
  • Army
  • Jail

• Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

  

  Albert Goldman
  • Sing
  • Dollar
  • Elvis

• I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'

  

  Lorde
  • Real
  • I Love
  • Pop

• I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.

  

  Lorde
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Band
  • Misconstrue

• We believe eBay continues to represent the best business model within the internet sector, as it remains relatively insulated from the heightened competition within e-commerce.

  

  Anthony Noto
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Model

• As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Spiritual
  • Suffering
  • Ignorance

• I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Explore
  • Scientist
  • Builder

• It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Nothing
  • Happening

• There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • World
  • Culture

• I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rock

• We're not, like, hard men.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Hard Men

• Before Elvis there was nothing.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Elvis