John Lennon Quotes

It depends who they are. If it's Mick Jagger or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton John, David Bowie are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

John Lennon The Beatles

• Elton John
• Mick Jagger
• David Bowie
• Old Guard
• Newies

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• You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Family
  • You
  • Church

• I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • World
  • Hope
  • Man

• As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.

  

  Clive Owen
  • School
  • Crazy
  • Hair

• I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Giving
  • Alone
  • Cooking

• You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Winning
  • Marathon
  • Nipples

• People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?

  

  Artie Shaw
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Cool
  • Player
  • Players

• Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Hero
  • Lad
  • Elton John

• Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Jealous
  • Paul McCartney
  • Elton John

• It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

  

  Jon Landau
  • Achieved
  • Professionalism
  • Elton John

• Tin Machine had fallen on the grenade, gotten rid of the "Phil Collins-Tina Turner-1980s-Let's Dance-vibe" that he was uncomfortable with, and basically re-booted the Bowie (David Bowie) career system. All in all, it was fun, nobody died, and it was an education in diving into the deep end of the pool.

  

  Reeves Gabrels
  • Education
  • System
  • Pool

• David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • David Bowie
  • Butchest guy

• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Peace

• I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Question
  • Feminist

• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • May
  • Enemy

• I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

  

  Martin Henderson

• She rose and followed her bust from the room.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • She
  • Rose
  • Room

• A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling a throw cushion nestled under her head. Long wavy blond hair spread across her back and her shoulders like a cape. Even though she was sleeping, Alex could see how pretty she was, with her delicate, almost elfin features. He stood in the doorway, watching the soft rise and fall of her chest.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Kind
  • Needs
  • Walking

• If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Want
  • Self
  • Standards

• This is my fault. Give me the ball.

  

  Bronko Nagurski
  • Ball
  • Fault

• It depends who they are. If it's Mick Jagger or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton John, David Bowie are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Elton John
  • Mick Jagger
  • David Bowie