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
long care underestimate
Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
love-is promise souvenirs
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir...
believe thinking light
I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is.
political acid cases
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
christian religious bullshit
At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.
love want ifs
If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with love from me to you.
gun warm
Happiness is a warm gun.
fall long empathy
Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.
peace angel mind
When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.
life-is plans happens
Life is what happens when you make other plans.
together togetherness right-now
Come together, right now.
easy known knows
Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy
moving years people
People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.
music jesus rocks
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.