John Lennon on Rock and roll
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“We're just going to play rock and roll and not do anything else; we're going to stay in our rooms, and the world is a nasty, horrible place because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right?”
John Lennon's controversial 1966 remark comparing The Beatles' popularity to Jesus initially sparked little outrage in the UK, igniting a firestorm only upon its US release.
“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.”