John Lennon

John Lennon

09-Oct-1940


United Kingdom


Poet

Singer John Lennon met Paul McCartney in 1957 and asked McCartney to join his orchestra. They eventually established the best songwriting collaboration in the history of music. 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 wounded boyfriend named Mark David Chapman.

QUOTES BY John Lennon


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.

“I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”

”Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip. “

“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. “

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. 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. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. “

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

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

“Living is easy with eyes closed.”

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