[Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building on December 8, 1980. He and Ono were married in 1969.] His life was a very driven one, a very compressed one, …...

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

I said, ‘You’re a good songwriter. It’s not June with Spoon that you write. You’re a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs,’

Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

Lennon Legend

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.

This shows the timelessness of John’s prophetic, visionary songwriting.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right’ Sean’s doing his own thing.

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect...

Thank you George, it was grand knowing you.

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.

Memories of John Lennon,

Being alone is very difficult.

Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.

At this time I think it’s important that we remember John for what he contributed to the world. For people who still love John’s music and for those now getting into John’s music, this opens...

My life was pretty rough.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always...

they always cover Paul’s songs and never mine.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

No Rodgers and Hammerstein on Broadway now. Only Juke Box.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

(When) I read about the battle of the widows, I thought ‘I’m not John’s widow, Yoko is John’s widow,

I’d like to know how I feel towards her now. I’d really like to have a decent conversation to get to know this woman who has changed the face of musical history in many ways.

So many people have approached me and said, ‘Can I do a musical of John,’ … It’s a very simple idea, you know – wow, a musical of John! But I’ve said no. This time,...

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

We’re all water from different rivers,That’s why it’s so easy to meet,We’re all water in this vast, vast ocean,Someday we’ll evaporate together.

I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don’t have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a...

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

[Confronted for the first time by the sight of her husband and his lover,] rooted to the spot in shock and pain … John said, indifferently: ‘No, thanks.’

Let’s just say I don’t know if she has my number.

Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.

Art is my life and my life is art.

War is over if you want it.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

People always portrayed us as enemies, like two boxers on opposite sides of the ring, but of course it was never really like that,

Why do they cover Paul’s songs but never mine?

New technology is something he always embraced, and this is something he would have loved.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

I will consider the possibility, that is, when I get the call.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.