Lennon famous quotes

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
-- Brenda Lee

#Intelligent #Lennon #Irreverent

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

#Wife #Tokyo #Lennon

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.
-- Daniel Gordis

#Lennon #Judaism

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'.
-- David Bowie

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Lennon

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

#Spiritual #Father #Lennon

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

#Wish #Alternatives #Lennon

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!
-- Grant Morrison

#Rooms #Lennon #Convince

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

#Partnership #Lennon #Music Is

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.
-- Isaac Marion

#Trying #Easy #Lennon

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

#Mad #Sometimes #Lennon

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!
-- Julian Lennon

#Lennon

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

#Thinking #Lennon #Almighty

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

#Jesus #Lennon #Bigs

There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.
-- Mark David Chapman

#Lennon

I just shot John Lennon.
-- Mark David Chapman

#Lennon #Shots

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

#Want #Lennon #Want Me

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.
-- Mark David Chapman

#Lennon

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.
-- Mark David Chapman

#Saws #Albums #Lennon

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

#America #Lennon #Good Things

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Song #Writing #Lennon

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

#Hate #Lennon #Getting Along

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

#Acceptance #Lennon #Wanted

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

#Dad #Village #Lennon

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
-- Chris O'Donnell

#Giving #Chance #Lennon

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

#Goal #Annoying #Lennon

I only have one idol: John Lennon.
-- Michael Hirst

#Idols #Lennon

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

#Giving #Brilliant #Lennon

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.
-- Jools Holland

#Would Be #Lennon #Studios

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.
-- Laurence Shames

#Stories #Speak #Lennon

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.
-- Laurence Shames

#Car #Lennon #Gym

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

#Legs #England #Lennon