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
suicide drinking believe
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it...
sex rocks rock-n-roll
I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
kids america stuff
I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.
winning want sin
We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.
music ignorance thinking
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
music art resentment
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
love
Money can't buy me love.
understanding life-is human-life
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
nice believe thinking
You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.
friendship jeans teens
You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.
pain sadness dope
Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.
running boys turkeys
I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.
inspirational motivational positive
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
god father reality
But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.