John Lennon Quotes

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have.

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

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

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Music is important.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.