Lennon Mccartney Quotes

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. 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.

Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed.

Lennon and McCartney became great songwriters because they were prepared to listen to and learn from all types of music.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.