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
different notice-me
I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
fun jealous thinking
I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.
now-and-then shoulders chips
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
mean circles america
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
party coffee class
He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.
men should-have kicking
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
music army died
Elvis died the day he went into the army.
life giving knows
How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
life flower love-is
We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic - the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it - you got to let it grow.
years political religion
I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.
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.
games play too-much
The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
peace xmas fighting
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
inspirational dream wakes-you
Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.