John Lennon Quotes

• Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Life

• We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Violence, Broad

• Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing me.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• On this next number I want you all to join in. Would those in the cheap seats clap their hands? The rest of you can rattle your jewellery.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Reality

• It’s weird not to be weird.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weird

• It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Matters

• If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you’re leading the pack.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Success

• There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music

• You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

  John Lennon

  Topics in Humor

• I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Love

• Being honest may not get you many friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Honest, Right

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

  John Lennon

  Topics in Love

• Living is easy with eyes closed.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Living, Eyes

• How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?

  John Lennon

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Forward

• Life is what happens while we are making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happens

• “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality”.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Reality, Only

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

  John Lennon

  Topics in Age, Life, Smile, Wisdom

  Tags in Happiness, Friends

• You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And beatles are the biggest bastard on earth.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Makes, Biggest, Earth

• There’s no problems, only solutions.

  John Lennon

  Tags in Problems, Only

John Lennon (80)

Birth:	9th October, 1940
Death:	8th December, 1980
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

John Winston Ono Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. He was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He studied at the Liverpool College of Art. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership. In 1957, he formed his first band, the Quarrymen, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. In 2002, he was voted eighth in a BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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