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.
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.
expect odd pick scare torture twenty
They torture and scare you for twenty odd years... then they expect you to pick a career.
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.
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.
famous-love valentine wine
When I get older losing my hair many years from now, Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
scene accents
After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
humble records albums
When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.
revolutionary communist shouting
I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
love-yourself things-in-life love-of-my-life
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create