Top 40 Sean Lennon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.”

— Sean Lennon

2. “I like music because it’s the only invisible art form.”

— Sean Lennon

3. “My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection.”

— Sean Lennon

4. “It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don’t really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I’m here. I’m not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.”

— Sean Lennon

5. “Anyone who doesn’t think the government killed my father either hasn’t given the issue much thought, or is insane...”

— Sean Lennon

6. “For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don’t just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.”

— Sean Lennon

7. “The most important thing in art is taste.”

— Sean Lennon

8. “If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.”

— Sean Lennon

9. “I’m always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything’s the right cut, the fabrics are good.”

— Sean Lennon

10. “Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you’re part of everything.”

— Sean Lennon

11. “We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.”

— Sean Lennon

12. “The most important thing in my father’s life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.”

— Sean Lennon

13. “I’m not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I’m doing everything as it happens. I’m just trying my best.”

— Sean Lennon

14. “I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it’s true.”

— Sean Lennon

15. “I’ve always been cool, basically. I was cool in utero.”

— Sean Lennon

16. “Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.”

— Sean Lennon

17. “There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.”

— Sean Lennon

18. “It’s a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn’t get someone else to play me, that would’ve been stupid.”

— Sean Lennon

19. “I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn’t matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.”

— Sean Lennon

20. “I’m trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.”

— Sean Lennon

21. “Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It’s not something that just comes in a dream. You’ve got to work at it.”

— Sean Lennon

22. “I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That’s how I live my life.”

— Sean Lennon

23. “My tendency is to be very experimental.”

— Sean Lennon

24. “I wouldn’t even say “Imagine” is political. I think it’s more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don’t find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They’re not the ones that interest.”

— Sean Lennon

25. “Making films is great. You’ve got 100 people around and you’re all dressing up and making weird art-it’s a fun group activity.”

— Sean Lennon

26. “I don’t like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that’s not my thing.”

— Sean Lennon

27. “I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.”

— Sean Lennon

28. “What I hate is when you’re wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.”

— Sean Lennon

29. “I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.”

— Sean Lennon

30. “I’m not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We’re talking about a Mozart of rock music.”

— Sean Lennon

31. “I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn’t have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.”

— Sean Lennon

32. “My favourite men’s clothes are like Victorian British clothing.”

— Sean Lennon

33. “The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that’s what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they’re probably right on some level.”

— Sean Lennon

34. “I like songs that go to different places and then come back.”

— Sean Lennon

35. “Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I’m really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.”

— Sean Lennon

36. “I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.”

— Sean Lennon

37. “I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.”

— Sean Lennon

38. “You can’t just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.”

— Sean Lennon

39. “Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn’t realize that it’s so much work.”

— Sean Lennon

40. “I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it’s just maybe more specific.”

— Sean Lennon

41. “The work I’ve done, I’m really feeling the effects of it.”

— Sean Lennon

42. “Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.”

— Sean Lennon

43. “I feel like I’ve been way overexposed in the press. I’d rather play shows and represent myself in person.”

— Sean Lennon

44. “I’m lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.”

— Sean Lennon

45. “If the reviews hurt they’re probably right on some level.”

— Sean Lennon

46. “I try not to do anything by formula.”

— Sean Lennon

47. “I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.”

— Sean Lennon