John Lennon Quotes

“Paperback Writer” is the son of “Day Tripper” – meaning a rock’n’roll song with a guitar lick on a fuzzy, loud guitar – but it’s Paul’s song” – John Lennon

                       John and Yoko in the bath in 1968   “Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.”  – John Lennon

John Lennon plays with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones at the Stone’s Rock and Roll Circus in 1968.   “It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don’t appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It’s the same thing. [...]

“I go to restaurants and the groups always play “Yesterday.” I even signed a guy’s violin in Spain after he played us “Yesterday.” He couldn’t understand that I didn’t write the song. But I guess he couldn’t have gone from table to table playing “I Am The Walrus.” -John Lennon 

In this photo, John Lennon and George Harrison have headphones on and are listening to vinyl. John is holding a copy of the Rolling Stone’s 1965 album, “Aftermath” and  George has a 45 rpm record in his hand on the Decca label. Before the Beatles signed with EMI, Decca turned down the Beatles in 1961. [...]