![]() ![]() "The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. I was sort of writing from my experiences, girls' flats, things like that." - Rolling Stone, 1971, on writing Norwegian Wood years before "I was trying to write about an affair without letting me wife know I was writing about an affair, so it was very gobbledegook. I don't let it become 'I am the awakened you are sheep that will be shown the way.' That is the danger of saying anything, you know." - Playboy, 1981 "All we are saying is, 'This is what is happening to us.' We are sending postcards. It just sort of happens" - The Dick Cavett Show, 1971, on his memories of breaking up with the Beatles On songwriting "It's like saying, you know, 'Did you remember falling in love?' Not quite. "I said to Paul 'I'm leaving.' " - Rolling Stone, 1971, on quitting The Beatles If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling." - Rolling Stone, 1975 "I've got used to the fact - just about - that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. "Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?" - Playboy, 1981 How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine? - Rolling Stone, 1971 "There is not one thing that's Beatle music. View Gallery: John Lennon's 82nd birthday: See the iconic singer's life in photos We'd go when we decided, not when some fickle public decided, because we were not a manufactured group. "They've been trying to knock us down since we began, especially the British press, always saying, 'What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?' That was the in-crowd joke with us. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. "Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. "You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. We were all right." - Rolling Stone, 1971 When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. "We were really professional by the time we got to the States we had learned the whole game. ![]() "I said we were more popular than Jesus, which is a fact." - Look, 1966 There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what." - Playboy, published in 1981 "Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. If we're going out the door of the hotel, we say, 'Right! Beatle John! Beatle George now! Come on, let's go!' We don't put on a false front or anything." - Look, 1966 "We're not Beatles to each other, you know. More: 40th annual John Lennon tribute concert moves to stream free online due to coronavirus pandemic On the Beatles In honor of what would have been Lennon's 80th birthday, we've compiled 80 quotes and lyrics attributed to the late rock icon. He's remembered as one of the most influential figures of pop culture. His genius was behind such songs as "Come Together", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Imagine". At times, he was a controversial figure: Off-handedly saying his band was "More popular than Jesus" in 1966 and protesting war by staging a pair of weeklong Bed-Ins for Peace in 1969 with wife Yoko Ono. ![]() John Lennon was born 80 years ago today in Liverpool, England.ĭuring his all-too-short lifetime, Lennon reinvented popular music with the Beatles and later as a solo artist. ![]()
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