I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control
Interpretation
John Lennon expresses his preference for studio work due to the control it offers over the creative process.
In this quote, John Lennon highlights the sense of mastery and completeness he experienced in the studio, which allowed him to hone his craft and bring his artistic vision to life. The quote suggests that true creativity flourishes when one has the ability to manipulate and refine their work in an environment that offers freedom and control, making the studio a space of personal expression and fulfillment.
In practice
An artist might quote Lennon while discussing the creative process in a workshop.
When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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