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
crazy thinking genius
Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
joy mind sorrow
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m
baby jesus jobs
I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?
motivational uncontrollable
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
music studios
I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control
music play guitar
Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that
wanted
I've never really been wanted.
i-hate-you way tweak
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Happiness is a good vibe for peace.
art men saving
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
inspirational motivational heart
When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
people looks done
Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you
people different way
In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn't see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way.
jesus sorry taken
I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.