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
perhaps-love looks way
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.
beautiful dream imagine
Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
giving why-not chance
We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
love-yourself things-in-life people
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
inspirational motivational positive
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
army people warning
When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.
real class people
Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.
love life relationship
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
regret men violence
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
hero class working-class
A working class hero is something to be.
love inspirational life
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
life real love-life
Love is real, real is love.
inspirational thinking decision
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
hippie reflection artist
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.