![John Lennon on Jesus: 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. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. (Evening Standard, 1966)]()
John Lennon on Jesus: 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. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. (Evening Standard, 1966)
![On the fallout from his Jesus comments: “I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion.” (News conference, Chicago, 1966)]()
On the fallout from his Jesus comments: “I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion.” (News conference, Chicago, 1966)
![On being offered an M.B.E: “We thought being offered the M.B.E. was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.” (The Beatles, 1968)]()
On being offered an M.B.E: “We thought being offered the M.B.E. was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.” (The Beatles, 1968)
![After meeting Elvis in 1965: “Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.” (The Beatles: The Authorized Biography, 1968).]()
After meeting Elvis in 1965: “Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.” (The Beatles: The Authorized Biography, 1968).
![On peace: “We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks.” (The David Frost Show, 1969)]()
On peace: “We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks.” (The David Frost Show, 1969)
![At The Beatles' infamous rooftop gig: “I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.”]()
At The Beatles' infamous rooftop gig: “I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.”
![On The Beatles' split: “People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important.” (Scene and Heard, 1971)]()
On The Beatles' split: “People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important.” (Scene and Heard, 1971)
![On dreams: “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”]()
On dreams: “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
![About the song 'I'm A Loser': “Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.” (Playboy interview, 1980)]()
About the song 'I'm A Loser': “Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.” (Playboy interview, 1980)
![On The Beatles' humour: “That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.” (BBC interview, 1969)]()
On The Beatles' humour: “That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.” (BBC interview, 1969)
![On the 1960s: “It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.” (KFRC RKO Radio, 1980)]()
On the 1960s: “It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.” (KFRC RKO Radio, 1980)
![Speaking about his future music on the day of his death: “I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.” (RKO Radio, 1980)]()
Speaking about his future music on the day of his death: “I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.” (RKO Radio, 1980)
