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John Lennon

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: English

Occupation: Musician, artist, writer

Biography: John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.

John Lennon

“I don't know how much money I've got... I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.”

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John Lennon

“I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.”

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“If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was "Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!".”

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John Lennon

“We've been on our peace gig, as we call it, for a year solid. And people say, 'Do you think it's having any effect?' I can't answer that. It's like asking me in the Cavern, 'Are you gonna make it?' In the back of my mind I thought, I'm gonna make it, but I couldn't lay it on the line. And I think that peace is more tangible than Beatles.”

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“I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money-but that's all the same thing, really.”

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John Lennon

“You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you'.”

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“We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.”

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John Lennon

“When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze... and I always got a little violent on drink... So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it...”

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John Lennon

“The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.”

- John Lennon

Source/Notes: As quoted in "All you need is love to dismantle an atomic bomb: how the Beatles and U2 changed the world" by Todd McFliker, Continuum, 2007, p. 160 - ISBN: 9780826427762

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John Lennon

“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”

- John Lennon

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