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
education careers years
When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.
education clever hate
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.
games insanity mind
We're playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds, playing the mind guerilla.
rock-and-roll touching soul
Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.
religious talking bye
Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.
war mind politics
Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
family father you-left-me
Father, you left me, but I never left you.
peace justice special
Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
believe dont-believe
I don't believe in Elvis.
jobs taken reflection
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to… they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. […] If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that: they're reflections of society… mirrors.
evil heaven looks
I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.
song
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them
eye wind light
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe
mother words-of-wisdom beatles-love
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom 'Let it be,'