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
telling-the-truth rhyme
Tell the truth and make it rhyme
wonder imagine possession
Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.
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
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.