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
song writing sleep
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
inspirational dream wakes-you
Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
inspirational motivational garden
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.
relationship wife my-best-friend
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
running crazy thinking
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
famous-love valentine wine
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?
dream hope peace
You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
hurt back-when way
I know I hurt you then But that was way back when.
atheist heaven religion
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
inspirational mean reality
Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.
walrus
I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!
art school drug
The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.
fall night sober-up
In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.
emotional people dumb
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.