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
attitude political-revolution people
If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole
letting-go running song
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...
real joy understanding
When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.
stars normal reason
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
records fame has-beens
What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
alive keeping-hope
What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.
song writing play
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.
long pieces one-piece
I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
peace live-life perhaps-love
Imagine all the people living life in peace...
telling-the-truth rhyme
Tell the truth and make it rhyme
teamwork dream hope
I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.
sex tvs working-class-hero
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
reality vision psychedelic
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
fields want strawberries
Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go