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
John Lennon quotes about
drummer legendary life rock star
The Legendary Life of a Rock Star Drummer
accountant ask bit came lost money wrote
I don't know how much money I've got . . . I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.
expect odd pick scare torture twenty
They torture and scare you for twenty odd years... then they expect you to pick a career.
bloody critical faculties game grasp letting lights middle run switched turn
It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them.
round turned walked
I would have turned round right then and walked away.
peace coping-mechanisms giving
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
paper lost accountants
I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.
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.
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
get-back
Get back to where you once belonged,
now-and-then shoulders chips
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.
peace xmas fighting
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.