And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done?; Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young;
John Lennon Quotes
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about 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’n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that […]
There are places I remember all my life, Though some have changed, Some forever, not for better, Some have gone and some remain. All these places had their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living. In my life I’ve loved them all. But of all these […]
“Sgt. Pepper” is called the first concept album, but it doesn’t go anywhere. All my contributions to the album have absolutely nothing to do with this idea of Sgt. Pepper and his band; but it works ’cause we “said” it worked.
NothIng happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.
I liked the A side, but I never liked that sort of pop opera on the other side. I think it’s just junk because it was just bits of songs thrown together.
Someone mentioned the Colosseum in Rome, and I think originally Paul might have even suggested a bloody boat in the middle of the ocean. As for me, I was rapidly warming up to the idea of an asylum. (Let It Be)
We laid down a few tracks, but nobody was really into it at all. It was just such a very, very dreadful feeling being there in Twickenham Studios at eight o’clock in the morning with some old geezer pointing a camera up your nose expecting you to make good music with colored lights flashing on […]
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.
We were just writing songs a la Everly Brothers, a la Buddy Holly, pop songs with no more thought to them than that–to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant.
