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?
love-you feet six
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
dressed-up sixty happened
Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.
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.
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
found
What can I tell you about myself that you have not already found out from those who do not lie?
buy care money
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
people strange understand
I think that through that kind of incredible, strange confrontation, people started to understand me,
band
We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.
cheaper rattle rest seats
Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry.
round turned walked
I would have turned round right then and walked away.
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.
change gonna
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.