Lennon Quotes

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

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.

Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.

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

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

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

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

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

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

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

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

I just shot John Lennon.

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

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