Quote

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

John Lennon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Lennon
Age: 40 †
Born: 1940
Born: October 9
Died: 1980
Died: December 8
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Guitarist
Musician
Painter
Peace Activist
Pianist
Poet
Political Activist
Prosaist
City of Liverpool
John Winston Ono Lennon
John Winston Lennon
Lennon John
John Ono Lennon
Ships
Sixties
Discover
Nest
Generation
Nests
Generations
Crow
Music
Beatles
Going
Pet
World
Sixty
Ship
Nwo

More quotes by John Lennon

Image
What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.
John Lennon
Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon
Image
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
Image
Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
John Lennon
Image
Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
John Lennon
Image
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
John Lennon
Image
Happiness is a good vibe for peace.
John Lennon
Image
I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.
John Lennon
Image
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
John Lennon
Image
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon
Image
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
John Lennon
Image
Don't need a gun to blow your mind
John Lennon
Image
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.
John Lennon
Image
A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
John Lennon
Image
I really thought that love would save us all.
John Lennon
Image
You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
John Lennon
Image
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon
Image
That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.
John Lennon
Image
There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.
John Lennon
Image
Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? No, I said, I can't be mad because nobody's put me away therefore I'm a genius. Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
John Lennon