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John Lennon Quotes about Jesus

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I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing - and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said - the basic things he laid down about

I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing - and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said - the basic things he laid down about love and goodness - and not what people say he said.

Jesus, Believe, People

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

Dream, Jesus, Parking Meters

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

I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Jesus, Sorry, Taken

News conference in Chicago, August 11, 1966.

I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?

Baby, Jesus, Jobs

My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.

Music, Christian, Jesus

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Faith, Jesus, Rock And Roll

Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.15, Omnibus Press

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

Jesus, Rocks, Rock And Roll

Interview with Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, March 04, 1966.

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

Jesus, Believe, Magic

Song: God, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Jesus, Taken, Christ

"Ringo was the secret ingredient and other revelations from Ron Howard’s Beatles movie" by Stephanie Merry, www.washingtonpost.com. September 16, 2016.

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

Religious, Jesus, Sorry

"Proof the Beatles are bigger than Jesus!" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

Jesus, Thinking, Rock And Roll

'Evening Standard' 4 March 1966 (interview with Maureen Cleave).

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

Jesus, Slipping, Bigger

Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.

Jesus, Car, Cinema

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

Music, Jesus, Art

1966 In the Evening Standard.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Music, Jesus, Rocks

Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.

Jesus, Kids, America

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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