John Lennon Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Before Elvis there was nothing.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Elvis Is Everywhere". The New York Times, August 16, 2007.

• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

• When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.83, Verso

• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Music

• There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

  John Lennon

  Music, Variation, Notes

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

• We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.

  John Lennon

  Music, Girl, Strong

• If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

  John Lennon

  Music, Art, Men

• The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.

  John Lennon

  Music, Believe, Long

• When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.

  John Lennon

  Music, Real, Joy

• I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

  John Lennon

  Music, Brother, Dylan

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

• The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

  John Lennon

  Music, Dream, Reality

• All you need is love.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Music

  John Lennon (2002). “The Songs of John Lennon: The Beatles Years”, p.214, Berklee Press

• Elvis died the day he went into the army.

  John Lennon

  Music, Army, Died

  "Elvis Presley: The return of the King" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2010.

• It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

  John Lennon

  Music, Rocks, Talking

  BBC Radio 1 "Scene and Heard" with David Wigg, October 25, 1971.

• It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

  John Lennon

  Music, Eye, Thinking

• The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

  John Lennon

  Music, Real, Jazz

• I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

  John Lennon

  Music, Music Is, Beatles Peace

• It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

  John Lennon

  Music, Real, Drinking

• If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

  John Lennon

  Music, Swim, Messages

• The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

  John Lennon

  Music, Band, Made

• Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that

  John Lennon

  Music, Guitar, Play

• I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

  John Lennon

  Music, Studios

• From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

  John Lennon

  Music, Hands, Different

• And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

  John Lennon

  Music, Writing, Noses

  "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2004.

• The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

  John Lennon

  Music, Mean, Ideas

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