Lennon Quotes - page 2

This is ex-Beatle, John Lennon. I've been wanting to write you, but I guess I didn't really want to face reality. I never do this, this is why I take drugs. Reality frightens me and paranoids me. True, I have a lot of money... but basically, I'm afraid to face the problems of life. Let me begin to say, I regret that I said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. I don't even like myself anymore - guilt. My Cousin, Marilyn McCabe has tried to help me. She told me you were praying for me. ... I want happiness. I don't want to keep up with drugs... Explain to me what Christianity can do for me. Is it phoney? Can He love me? I want out of Hell. I am, I hate to say, under the influence of pills now. I can't stop. I only wish I could thank you for caring. (John Lennon)
This, we have to say it, remember this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses. An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all of The Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead ... on ... arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that newsflash, which in duty bound, we had to take. View quote
Howard Cosell
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London. View quote
Ben Kingsley
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. View quote
Noel Gallagher
I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there. View quote
Bryan Ferry
The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty. View quote
Kevin Spacey
It's no accident that so many fabled rock ensembles have had two contrasting leaders (Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Plant and Page, Bono and The Edge) to play off each other and cross-pollinate and, at times, butt heads. But Chris Martin completely dominates Coldplay; there's no yin to his smiley enraptured yang. He's the rock-king superstar the other band members all worship, humbly, as the genius who made their fates possible, and almost every moment of the band's creative energy is organized around what Chris is going to do next: the piano chords he's playing around with, the lyrics he's writing, his endless studio perfectionism. source. View quote
Chris Martin
There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon. View quote
Mark David Chapman
When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy. View quote
Bono
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. View quote
Gary Oldman
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. (Joey Ramone)
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. View quote
Andrew Dost
John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent. View quote
Brenda Lee
I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance. View quote
Chris O'Donnell
It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had. View quote
Emun Elliott
I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country and heavy metal. I love Marvin Gaye, John Legend, Al Green, Fat Freddys Drop, Sade, Grace Jones, Bazoo Bijou, Prince, John Lennon, London Grammar, Daft Punk, Dr John, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Gotye, and on it goes. View quote
Jane Badler
I am not John Lennon; I never will be! View quote
Julian Lennon
Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own. View quote
Jake Bugg
We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't. View quote
L.A. Reid
Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear "Love" by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment it will bring me to tears. View quote
Lou Barlow
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. (Peter Fonda)
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. View quote
Rick Wakeman
Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut. View quote
Robin Thicke
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died. View quote
Sam Taylor-Wood
I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing. View quote
Scott Aukerman