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
eye work-out matter
Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn't matter much to me
ideas looks beats
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
mean being-in-love rocks
When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?
speak feds damn
I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.
hypocrisy people smoking
The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.
inspirational work rooms
There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.
let-it-go riding merry-go-round
No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.
believe angel thinking
All this bit about angels and all the different religions, it's based on something. I think anything's possible. I believe in everything until it's disproved.
space
Leave a space and something will fill it.
music song firsts
It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.
dream people feelings
I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they were contractual dreams or the public's dreams, or fulfilling my own dreams and illusions about what I thought I was supposed to be, which, in retrospect, turned out to not be what I am.
psychics leaving littles
It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.
children women mean
Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.
life-is plans
Life is what's going on while your making other plans.