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John Lennon

Biography

Type: Singer, Songwriter, Record producer, Artist, Writer, Activist

Born: 9 October 1940

Died: 8 December 1980

Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other before, or since. John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England. He met Paul McCartney in 1957 and invited McCartney to join his music group. They eventually formed the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history. Lennon left the Beatles in 1969 and later released albums with his wife, Yoko Ono, among others. On December 8, 1980, he was killed by a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman.

John Lennon Quotes

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear..
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.. John Lennon
The more I see, the less I know for sure.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Nothing is real.. John Lennon
Nothing is real.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.. John Lennon
Everything is clearer when you're in love.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore. John Lennon
I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.... John Lennon
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.. John Lennon
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?. John Lennon
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.. John Lennon
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends. John Lennon
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. John Lennon
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.. John Lennon
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

War is over ... If you want it.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

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