Shockingly Cocky Quotes: No. 3
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"We're more popular than Jesus now."
-- John Lennon
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sarah nemoat 2-26-2008
you've got this "cocky quote" all wrong. john lennon was saying it disparagingly - he thought it sad that modern age had made "stars" more present in peoples minds than their spirituality, boneheads.
G3M1N1at 10-08-2008
Yea I do remember that I agree with you they twisted this quote
Dacheranat 10-08-2008
People should realize by now that they're twisting at least like... half of these, out of context.
Kevinat 8-03-2009
Thanks Sarah, well said.
This one and the R.E.M. quote...I am pleasantly surprised to see that most everyone knows they were taken out of context.
DAvidat 8-27-2009
JOhn was implying, we are just a band, we are nothing else, so stop worshipping us like Jesus. I am sure that John and George were most welcome with their Lord.
snpal21at 2-26-2008
who is he?
cheyanneat 7-12-2008
R u serious? u dont know who john lennon is?? He is a rock legend!!!!!
vrbabls2at 10-08-2008
What he is, is overated
SIXXat 10-08-2008
WHO IS HE? Bet ya don't know who God is either. A 5 year old would even know who John Lennon is. And while I think his quote was just a little uh ... well hell his quote about the Beatles wasn't as bad as everyone wanted to make it out to be. Geeeeeez, I mean you ARE talking about the Beatles after all .....
Darrylat 10-08-2008
The Beatles were really overrated.. only liked Strawberry Fields Forever and Let It Be and that was not due to the original versions, but Across The Universe. On the other hand, John Lennon by himself pretty cool! Additionally, this quote really goes down in history. Nobody will ever forget it, It reated mega controversy, and furthermore The Beatles as much records as they sold will never be bigger than JESUS?? like come on guy, it's JESUS... as comments above prove... everyone knows of him. John Lennon.. not really. (especially those of a younger generation)
mollyat 10-08-2008
My 8 year old son knew who John Lennon was when he was like 4!! Jeez, read up. You don't need to like him but at least know who he was and what he stood for.
spinnerglordat 2-26-2008
@sarah nemo:
Here's John Lennon's full quote, as it appeared in the Evening Standard (London), March 4, 1966:
"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 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
If that's not the sine qua non of cockiness, then we're as big boneheads as you have judged us to be without you taking in the full context of his quote yourself.
Hugs,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spinner Editor
Norma LaDonisat 5-18-2009
THANK YOU...and Lennon too
John tooat 8-27-2009
Seems to me history is proving him right, just as he said. Rock and roll, is definitely dying and Christianity is becoming illegal in a country that was founded purely to be able to practice Christianity without government interference. Isn't it ironic?
Asheat 2-28-2008
Why is it not surprising that the same person who said Avril Lavigne is a "sexi punk," doesn't know who John Lennon is.
TSrocks995at 8-11-2008
I agree. the beatles were, are and always will be one of the best rock bands of all time.
charlie6385at 2-28-2008
The outrage that came towards the Beatles when John Lennon said this makes me surprised it wasn't #1.
Beccaat 2-28-2008
did you SERIOUSLY ask who John Lennon was? One of the four members of the Beatles? Got shot by a guy who was convinced that the book "Catcher in the Rye" told him to kill famous people? He has his own special memorial thingie in Central Park. That man is my hero.
Poison freakat 2-29-2008
John is cool. :-)
Ophelia Eastonat 3-01-2008
John didn't say they were BIGGER than Jesus. He said they were MORE POPULAR. There is a difference. Frankly, he's not wrong. Millions, or maybe even billions, of people were buying Beatles records and listening to them everyday. The radiostations played them quite frequently. Now how many of those people went to church and listened to the word of the lord?
There were more people listening to the Beatles instead of listening to the words of Jesus. The media helped them get publicized greatly. There was no media at the time Christianity became popular. Between the media and Beatlemania, John was right. The Beatles had become MORE POPULAR than Jesus.