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
growing-up son parenting
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.
growing-up parenting want
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
crazy kids responsibility
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
moving guitar way
I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.
teenage real writing
I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.
kings real being-real
I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
two creating people
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening
music art jesus
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.
poetry mystery poet
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
love inspirational music
All you need is love.
planning life-happens happens
Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
wasted-time ifs enjoyed
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.
lying hymns judging
You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.
dream land mountain
If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land...