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
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?
peace coping-mechanisms giving
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
peace justice special
Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
dream hope peace
You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
peace and-love peace-and-love
Peace and love are eternal
peace xmas fighting
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
peace angel mind
When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.
giving mind peace-of-mind
I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind
love peace soap
Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.
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I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
love peace kings
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.
love peace looks
We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
love peace war
We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.
love peace government
Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.