Sean Lennon famous quotes

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
-- Sean Lennon

#Love #Betrayal #Stories

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it
-- Sean Lennon

#Dream #Crafts #Kind

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
-- Sean Lennon

#Air #Transformation #Uncertain

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.
-- Sean Lennon

#Dirty #Water #Fracking

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
-- Sean Lennon

#Music #Inspiration #Writing

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.
-- Sean Lennon

#Daddy #Bigger

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
-- Sean Lennon

#Book #Ideas #Giving

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection
-- Sean Lennon

#Father #Connections #Cia

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.
-- Sean Lennon

#Song #Different #Different Place

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
-- Sean Lennon

#Grateful #Play #People

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.
-- Sean Lennon

#Father #Attention #Lucky

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
-- Sean Lennon

#Mom #Brother #Father

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.
-- Sean Lennon

#First Love #Wonder Woman #Lasts

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
-- Sean Lennon

#Song #Bridges #Different

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.
-- Sean Lennon

#Art #Invisible #Form

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
-- Sean Lennon

#Play #Way #Feels

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
-- Sean Lennon

#Years #Film #Feels

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
-- Sean Lennon

#Art #Believe #Trying

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
-- Sean Lennon

#Thinking #Trying #Today

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.
-- Sean Lennon

#Records #Produce #Producers

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
-- Sean Lennon

#Growing Up #Rocks #Would Be

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
-- Sean Lennon

#Guitar #Two #Piano

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.
-- Sean Lennon

#Mind #Naked #Feels

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.
-- Sean Lennon

#Art #Fun #Dressing Up

I try not to do anything by formula.
-- Sean Lennon

#Trying #Formulas

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
-- Sean Lennon

#Dream #Song #Film

My tendency is to be very experimental.
-- Sean Lennon

#Tendencies

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
-- Sean Lennon

#Father #Rocks #Talking

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist
-- Sean Lennon

#Mean #Artist #People

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it
-- Sean Lennon

#Feelings #Done

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best
-- Sean Lennon

#Trying #Way

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid
-- Sean Lennon

#Stupid #Play #Embarrassing

When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter,
-- Sean Lennon

#Daughter

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.
-- Sean Lennon

#Song #Father #Play

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry
-- Sean Lennon

#Entertainment #Lucky #Entertainment Industry