John Lennon Quotes
StatusMind collected the most prominent sayings of a famous musician John Winston Lennon (1940 –1980), a singer and a songwriter who is best known as a founder and a member of the most successful band in the history of popular music, The Beatles. After his divorce with Cynthia Powell, his first wife, he married Yoko Ono in 1969, Lennon changed his name to John Ono Lennon. John was born In 1940 but has lived most of his childhood and adolescence with his aunt and her family who had no children. His mother often visited him and around twenty years passed before he had contact with his father again. His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956, knowing well that her sister was not supportive of her son's musical aspirations. She was struck by a car and killed when John was 17. Lennon had a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, and in interviews. His songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement. John Lennon had two children; Julian Lennon, from his first marriage and Sean from his marriage to Yoko Ono. He was murdered in 1980 at the age of forty.
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity." "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what color my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact
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
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground
Before Elvis there was nothing
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it
Quotes about Music
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die
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
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears