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
easy known knows
Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy
moving years people
People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.
music jesus rocks
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
girl dirty boys
I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.
records remakes made
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
believe men over-you
Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, “turn on and drop out, man” - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.
beautiful baby children
Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.
atheist sky people
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...
getting-high lows
It's amazing how low you go to get high.
dressed-up sixty happened
Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.
inspirational sunset thinking
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
giving mind peace-of-mind
I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind
Control yourself. You'll spurt.
army giving people
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.