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
war people heroism
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
dean jimmy
Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.
now-and-then shoulders chips
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
people guy god-knows
The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.
party want left
I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
mean water get-real
There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'
sleep leaving-me shakes
Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping...
fans liverpool
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
inspirational problem no-problem
There are no problems, only solutions.
religious jesus sorry
I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.
different notice-me
I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
fun jealous thinking
I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.
people want hated
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.
book paper stuff
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.