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Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

John Lennon

Music

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

John Lennon

Music, Art, Resentment

We were cowards when we sacked him.

John Lennon

Music, Coward, Music Is

'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.

John Lennon

Music, Style, Done

I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

John Lennon

Music, Song, Giving

My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

John Lennon

Music, Ideas, Originals

I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.

John Lennon

Music, Art, Form

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

John Lennon

Music, Song, Writing

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.

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

John Lennon

Music, Guitar, Play

We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.

John Lennon

Music, Country, Law

A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.

John Lennon

Music, Together Again, Interesting