Quotes About John Lennon

Kurt Cobain: "John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down."

Kevin Spacey: "Growing up, to me, he was a hero."

Meatloaf: "I met Elvis and John Lennon and I was an idiot. A complete moron."

Gary Oldman: "If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon."


Moby: "If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it."

Joey Ramone: "To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people."

Esai Morales: "I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father."

Cynthia Lennon: "John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof."

Rick Nielson (Cheap Trick): "Even to this day, if it would have been, 'Hey Rick, you get to play with Elvis, you get to play with Paul McCartney, you get to play with Mick Jagger, or you get to play with John Lennon.' John Lennon is the only one I would have picked out of that bunch."

Peter Fonda: "I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does."

The Clash Quotes

Mick Jones: "The chemistry of the four of us is so unique. But also each person is the sum of their experiences when they play music."

Paul Simonon: "We weren't a political party, it was all about personal politics."

Nicky Headon: "I was watching The Who on Top Of The Pops, it was My Generation they were doing and I just thought...I want to be Keith Moon."

Joe Strummer: "Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot."

Mick Jones: "Rock 'n' roll means so much more to people, it enriches the culture."



Paul Simonon: "I didn't want the role of being Entwhistle or Bill Wyman, stuck in the background. That's too depressing and if that was what I'd been offered with The Clash I would've turned it down."

Mick Jones: "This is an important fact: people prefer to dance than to fight wars."

Paul Simonon: "London Calling was good for me personally as it was a moment of learning how to play the bloody instrument and writing a song."

Joe Strummer: "Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough."

Nicky Headon: "It was the chemistry between the four of us. But none of us really knew what made The Clash work."

Mick Jones: "It's nice when people are still interested in what you've done. Maybe they'll be interested in what you're doing now as well."

Joe Strummer: "I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people."

John Lydon Quotes

John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, was one of the Architects of punk music and fashion.

"Chaos was my philosophy. Oh yeah, have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely."

"Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. as soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be."

"I lost Sid, my best and dearest friend, to heroin, and it's not nice. You've got to get away from drugs as escapism. There's nothing you need to run away from yourself as a human being. Quite the opposite. Learn to love thyself and all will be fine."


 "The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records."

"Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max."

"I'm surprised we aren't in jail for treason."

"The only place I have ever felt truly comfortable is on stage. I still get the nerves and the doubts beforehand, but on stage I feel that's my home."

(On Joe Strummer) "I miss him, by the way. There was something really good about him. He had a good little innocent spark in there, a real soul."

(On occupy Wall Street) "They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing the flute."

"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."