Latest Sean Lennon Quotes from Interviews

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• You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

  Sean Lennon

  Attention, Pay, Term

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• The most important thing in art is taste.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Important, Taste

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.

  Sean Lennon

  Hurt, Levels, Reviews

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.

  Sean Lennon

  Men, Clothes, Favourite

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

  Sean Lennon

  Hate, Body, Feels

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• I've always been cool, basically. I was cool in utero.

  Sean Lennon

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.

  Sean Lennon

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…

  Sean Lennon

  Song, Home, Artist

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

• My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.

  Sean Lennon

  Dad, Father, Appreciate

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

• I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Thinking, Psychosis

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

• Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.

  Sean Lennon

  Song, Art, Dad

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

• I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.

  Sean Lennon

  Artist, Thinking, Energy

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

• I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

  Sean Lennon

  Christian, Art, Believe

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

• The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.

  Sean Lennon

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

• I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.

  Sean Lennon

  Song, Art, Writing

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

• I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.

  Sean Lennon

  People, Dresses, Ugly

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

  Sean Lennon

  People, Giving, Perspective

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.

  Sean Lennon

  Hurt, Levels, Serious

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

  Sean Lennon

  Thinking, Sound, Matter

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.

  Sean Lennon

  Cutting, Italian, Men

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.

  Sean Lennon

  Good Life, Nice, Ambitious

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

• They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Technology, Rocks

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.