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John Winston Ono Lennon[a] MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership. Along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the group would ascend to world-wide fame during the 1960s.

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Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe

Blindly, Eye, Light, Million, Wind

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.

Life, Depression, Running, Insane, Objectives, People

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

Call, Jesus, Publishers, Rocks, Roll, Thinking

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

Spinning, Stops, World, Worry

We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.

Girl, Make, Music, Quiet, Reckoned, Strong

From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

Music, Hands, Different, Earliest, Pop

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life. . . . up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

Music, Song, Firsts, Throwaway, Life

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Anywhere, Fields, Strawberries, Strawberry, Want

Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.

Doing You, Drug, Know, Meditation, Somebody

New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

Art, Cash, New York, Paris

You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?

Awake, Dream, Happens, Real

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

British, Listening, Music, Richard, Shadow

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

God, Inspirational, Sunset, Suspects, Thinking, Thinks

I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

Call, Feel Better, Idea, Ideas, Shallow, Thinking

We were cowards when we sacked him.

Coward, Cowards, Music, Music Is, Sacked

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

Music, Drummer, Found, Dump, Decent

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles. . . The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

Beatles Peace, Music, Music Is, Paul, Separate, Separately

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

Like, Not Sure, Oppressed, Place, Realising

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

Ballet, Fruity, Music, People, Thing, Voice

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

Fidel, People, Pockets, Seemed, Together, Workers

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