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
children regret genius
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
war people heroism
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
emotional people dumb
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
karma believe heal
I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)
children teenage hate
You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you.
hinduism made
It made me high. It really did.
peace and-love peace-and-love
Peace and love are eternal
famous-love forever fields
Strawberry fields forever
dumb drug goes-on
I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.
feelings may feels
Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.
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.
mean water get-real
There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'
fans liverpool
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.