John Lennon Quotes

• Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Everything

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

  John Lennon

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Promise, Once

• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, than there’d be peace.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Another, Everyone, Instead

• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  John Lennon

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Pain, Concept

• Reality Leaves a lot to the imagination.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leaves, Reality

• All we are saying is give peace a chance.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Give, Chance

• Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Ground

• You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

  John Lennon

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

  John Lennon

• You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

  John Lennon

• You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Need, Tell

• And we all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moon, Shine

• Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

  John Lennon

• When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

  John Lennon

• We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

• We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

  John Lennon

• These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

  John Lennon

• There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

  John Lennon

• 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.

  John Lennon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

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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