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
girl dirty boys
I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.
records remakes made
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
mother
Mother, you had me, but I never had you.
believe men over-you
Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, “turn on and drop out, man” - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.
beautiful baby children
Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.
atheist sky people
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...
getting-high lows
It's amazing how low you go to get high.
dressed-up sixty happened
Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.
inspirational sunset thinking
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
giving mind peace-of-mind
I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind
Control yourself. You'll spurt.
army giving people
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.
eye work-out matter
Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn't matter much to me
ideas looks beats
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.