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
people strange understand
I think that through that kind of incredible, strange confrontation, people started to understand me,
sex class people
To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.
children reality people
I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
people together able
All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.
sex people realising
How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.
voice people ballet
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
kids people fans
Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
cutting people long
It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.
school people insulting
I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
school giving people
You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.
song writing people
I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
jobs people mind
If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.
impact people together
Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.
people
There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.