John Lennon

“Our society is run by insane people”

“We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] 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. Quoted by Hunter Davies in The Beatles”

“I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together I Am the Walrus ,”

“Very rich. Asked how he felt about a Beatles' Shea Stadium concert not selling out; Pop Chronicles : Show 38”

“I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti”

“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”

“One cave she wolf go too farther, and I wolf leaf her”

“It was a load of rubbish. It was like meeting Engelbert Humperdinck . Later comments on meeting Elvis , as quoted in The Beatles: The Biography (2005) by Bob Spitz, p. 583.”

“There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis . If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles. Statement (28 August 1965) after meeting Elvis Presley , as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2005) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 386; also partly quoted in The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968) by Hunter Davies, p. 19”

“The remark provoked warm laughter and applause, and was greeted with profound relief by Beatles manager Brian Epstein , who had feared Lennon would make good on his pre”