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
reading thinking ideas
I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.
feel-better thinking ideas
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.
rocks rock-and-roll ideas
The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.
music ideas originals
My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.
ideas looks beats
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
animal gun ideas
Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
music mean ideas
The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.
believe ideas political
I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.
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.
found
What can I tell you about myself that you have not already found out from those who do not lie?
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