Lennon Quotes

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.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I just shot John Lennon.

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.

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

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

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.