John Lennon Quotes
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When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it...
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When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
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Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war—for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
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Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing...
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I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
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She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.
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He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.
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I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.
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I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
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Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
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If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.
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I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.
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LSD went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.
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The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.
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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 are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.
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Everything is as important as everything else.
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Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.
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I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
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I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
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These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up … I cannot be on the way up again. … What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I'm not interesting in being a dead (expletive) hero. … So forget 'em, forget 'em.'
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"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."
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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.