Lennon Quotes

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.

It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!

When Neil played for me, he ran his legs off. (on Neil Lennon)

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

Neil Lennon wasn't sent off for scoring a goal, and that's what annoys me

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.