John Lennon

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with 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 and roll or Christianity.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with 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 and roll or Christianity.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.

If The Beatles or the 60’s had a message, it was ‘Learn to swim. And once you’ve learned – swim!’

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

Jazz improvisation is the art of drawing without an eraser.

The fact that an artist is experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we’re in it together.

I love it when people hear my music but can’t figure out what instrument I’m playing.

It’s true I’ve always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and be yawning your head off.

Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life.

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, ‘Well if you go out and save your money.’ So I went and got – I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I’d bring whatever I made.

Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression.

A great song can pull me out of a slump and lighten my heart.

What we do as artists is a combination of experience and imagination. How that creeps into your work is not so linear.

The majority of people mistakenly feel they don’t need a live musical experience.