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
artist simplicity rounds
The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
breathe ifs
You can only breathe out if you breathe in.
one-day-at-a-time one-day
One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you
fun kids people
People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.
Your inside is out and your outside is in.
form lowest
Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.
home thinking used
I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.
kids trying variation
All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.
freak
You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate
art
Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!
teacher growing-up want
My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.
years lsd used
[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.
jesus car looks
Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.
animal gun ideas
Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.