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
life games play
There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game It's easy. All you need is love.
games play too-much
The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
music play guitar
Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that
guitar play howl
I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.
song writing play
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.
change gonna
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
found
What can I tell you about myself that you have not already found out from those who do not lie?
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?
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.
buy care money
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
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.
expect odd pick scare torture twenty
They torture and scare you for twenty odd years... then they expect you to pick a career.
Because you know you're never going to get in Billboard.
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.