Born in Liverpool on 9 October 1940, John Winston Lennon is one of the founding members of the most iconic Band ‘Beatles’ that has aged beautifully. John was very close to his mother Julia Lennon until she was alive; on the contrary, he had little connection with his father Alf. For most of us, our parents are our first heroes and inspiration. John too was inspired by his mother.
Julia Lennon taught John to play banjo – which was the first instrument he learned. He and his mother both appreciated Elvis Presley’s music. ‘Fats Domino’s Ain’t That A Shame’ was the first song he learned to play. This passion of song writing and singing went on till he was alive. He co-wrote his first song ‘Hello Little Girl’ with Paul McCartney, who was the one of co-songwriters in Beatles Band.
‘When I see you every day I say mmm hmm, hello little girl.’
‘You’re delightful, you’re delicious and da da da.
Isn’t it a pity that you are such a scatter brain.’
In March 1957, John Lennon formed The Quarrymen and in the same year he met Paul McCartney at the garden fete at St Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool. From then, there was no looking back. The songwriting partnership between him and Paul remains one of the most successful in the history.
After the band broke out, John Lennon started a solo career with his second wife, Yoko Ono. He released his second solo album ‘Imagine’ which went on to become a commercial success. With or without the band John was a music legend. On 8 December 1980, John was shot by Mark David Chapman. Even today there are people who listen to his music and are inspired by his journey. Here are few John Lennon Quotes to draw inspiration from:
John Lennon Quotes on 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.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
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?
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets.
John Lennon Quotes on Love:
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.
Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
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.
When you do something 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.
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.
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.
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.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Love is all you need.
John Lennon Quotes on Peace:
If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
Trying to please everybody is impossible – if you did that, you’d end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You’ve just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.
If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.
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.
Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like.
I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!
John Lennon Quotes On Women:
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon Quotes on Dream:
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Produce your own dream. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters.
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 be as one.
John Lennon Quotes On Happiness:
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…
One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.
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 no problems, only solutions.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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!
How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?
Happiness is just how you feel when you don’t feel miserable.
You’re all geniuses, and you’re all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.
John Lennon Quotes on Art:
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
Nobody controls me. I’m uncontrollable. The only one who controls me is me, and that’s just barely possible.
What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.
Everything is as important as everything else.
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Only by trying on other people’s clothes do we find what size we are.
It’s weird not to be weird.
When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.
Art is only a way of expressing pain.
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
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.
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