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."

Meat Loaf Quotes

"I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast."

"Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work."

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


"You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four."

"I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting."

I listen to everything just to see what they're all doing. I really do. I listen to 50 Cent, to Faith Hill, because I want to know what everybody's doing, I just want to hear it."

"You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you're going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there's never a rhyme or reason. It's, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen."

"You do not measure success by sales or dollars and cents. It is measured by the work, how you feel, and did you give everything you had?"

"There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life."

"I'm not built to be a celebrity."