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
book school writing
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.
inspirational book mistress
That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.
book paper stuff
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
bastards biggest
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
bird wild-birds
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
inspirational motivational birthday
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
found
What can I tell you about myself that you have not already found out from those who do not lie?
buy care money
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
people strange understand
I think that through that kind of incredible, strange confrontation, people started to understand me,
band
We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.
cheaper rattle rest seats
Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry.
round turned walked
I would have turned round right then and walked away.
accountant ask bit came lost money wrote
I don't know how much money I've got . . . I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.
change gonna
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.