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
brother trying wake-up
It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.
trying young should
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
kids trying variation
All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.
running trying want
I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
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?
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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.
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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
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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.
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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.
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Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.