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
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.
book school writing
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.
art school drug
The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.
attitude school past
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
dream high-school-graduation i-love-my-husband
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
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
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.