John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBEwas an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a lucrative songwriting partnership...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 October 1940
paper lost accountants
I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.
inspirational life ignorance
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
affection affected
Nothing really affected me until Elvis.
friendship race together
You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
girl dream women
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.
suicide drinking believe
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it...
sex rocks rock-n-roll
I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
kids america stuff
I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.
winning want sin
We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.
music ignorance thinking
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
music art resentment
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
love
Money can't buy me love.
understanding life-is human-life
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
nice believe thinking
You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.