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
John Lennon quotes about
get-back
Get back to where you once belonged,
party want left
I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
fans liverpool
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
now-and-then shoulders chips
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
being-yourself thinking together
If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.
peace xmas fighting
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
famous-love valentine wine
When I get older losing my hair many years from now, Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
atheist heaven religion
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
army wells
We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
feel-better thinking ideas
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.
horse sex war
Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.
scene accents
After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
religious pain heart
I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.
humble records albums
When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.