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
inspirational believe needs
"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.
political religion status-quo
I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
swim messages ifs
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
rain garden waiting
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.
art believe sculpture
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.
inspirational guitar mad
Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
love real knowing
Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.
believe promise looks
It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.
sadness stupidity tears
I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.
country live-life people
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace...
orange sound want
I want it to sound like an orange.
inspirational motivational want
If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.
done stuff sound
Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone...
people boring
It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.