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John Lennon Quotes about Music - Page 2

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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.

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.

Music, Real, Drinking

I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

Music, Clever, Fun

"The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 120), 2000.

I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

Music, Thinking, Years

Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.9, Verso

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

Music, Army, Died

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

The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.

Music, People, Guy

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

Music, Studios

Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.

Music, Song, Emotional

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

Music, Music Is, Beatles Peace

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

Music, Fun, Writing

Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.126, Omnibus Press

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

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

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Music, Ignorance, Thinking

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

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.

Music, Mean, Ideas

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

Music, Song, Firsts

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Music, Our Generation, Nwo

The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.

Music, Song, Writing

Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

Music, Dean, Music Is

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

Music, Party, Want

The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

Music, Teenager, Writing

The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.

Music, Rock And Roll, Ideas

We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.

Music, Believe, Order

"The Beatles". Book by Hunter Davies, 1968.

I don't miss it. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it.

Music, Missing, Glad

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

Music, Two, People

I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.

Music, Song, Writing

For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty. It would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better.

Music, Memories, Rocks

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

Music, Swim, Messages

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