Top 222 Lennon Quotes & Sayings

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

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

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

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

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

I'll buy myself some plastic water, I should have married Lennon's daughter.

I loved John Lennon, by the way.

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed.

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

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'.

Neil Lennon was a great manager; he really got your team in the mood and wanting to play for him.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

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

The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who`'d choose Paul McCartney... After The Beatles came back from India, Lennon wrote "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and McCartney wrote "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." End of argument.

I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

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!

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

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

I got to work with John Lennon. That was pretty cool.

I loved John Lennon. I read interviews, and whatever he said he liked, I would go and listen to them. That is what I want to do with my fans.

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

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

I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

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

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

To think the first boyfriend that you lived with is John Lennon, it's hard to make that realization to someone.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back in 1971 at an anti-war rally.

A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.

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.

John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.

I was 11 years old when the Beatles broke up. I was a Lennon fanatic - I mean, I loved Paul too, but Lennon was the guy - and there was always this dream of the Beatles getting back together; there was always this hope.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

Lennon and McCartney became great songwriters because they were prepared to listen to and learn from all types of music.

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

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

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

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.

I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.

I wish that I'd written John Lennon's 'Imagine.'

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

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

The reason the rest of us remember, like, when John Lennon died, is because it's a moment when adrenaline is surging.