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
karma instant
Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head
inspirational love-yourself things-in-life
We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections
car
Getting out of one car and getting into another
children ocean sleep
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
music our-generation nwo
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
music-is possession
Music is everybody's possession.
want revolution world
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.
crazy cities san-francisco
We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.
light magic way
The magic of the music seems to light the way.
honor distinction crosses
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
inspirational life inspirational-life
I don't stand back and judge - I do.
hero appreciate people
It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison — it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.
believe men thinking
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.
love life happiness
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.