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
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What can I tell you about myself that you have not already found out from those who do not lie?
lying found
What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?
music drummer found
We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
round turned walked
I would have turned round right then and walked away.
band
We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.
buy care money
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
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
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.
bloody critical faculties game grasp letting lights middle run switched turn
It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them.
cheaper rattle rest seats
Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry.
expect odd pick scare torture twenty
They torture and scare you for twenty odd years... then they expect you to pick a career.
hope join
You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one.I hope some day you'll join usand the world will be as one.
babies beautiful cried everybody flowers happy horrible peace rock roll rooms sixties stay wonderful
Now in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said, 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right?