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.
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.
hinduism made
It made me high. It really did.
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?
army wells
We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
feel-better thinking ideas
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.
scene accents
After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.