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
sadness stupidity tears
I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.
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.
Because you know you're never going to get in Billboard.
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.