Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 09. Oktober 1940 |
Geburtsort | Liverpool |
Todesdatum | Montag, 08. Dezember 1980 |
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Beschreibung | John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (* 9. Oktober 1940 als John Winston Lennon in Liverpool; † 8. Dezember 1980 in New York) war ein britischer Musiker, Komponist und Friedensaktivist sowie Oscar- und mehrfacher Grammy-Preisträger. Weltweit berühmt wurde er als Mitgründer, Sänger und Gitarrist der britischen Rockband The Beatles, für die er nach Paul McCartney die meisten Stücke schrieb. Die Urheber- bzw. Komponistenpartnerschaft Lennon/McCartney ist eine der bekanntesten und erfolgreichsten in der Geschichte der Popmusik. In der Auflösungsphase der Beatles veranstaltete John Lennon gemeinsam mit seiner zweiten Ehefrau Yoko Ono ab Ende der 1960er Jahre mehrere öffentlichkeitswirksame Happenings (vgl. Fluxus) für den Weltfrieden und wandte sich künstlerisch neuen Gebieten zu. Nach der Trennung der Beatles startete Lennon eine erfolgreiche Solokarriere mit Alben wie John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970) und Imagine (1971). Lennon wurde im Dezember 1980 in New York bei einem Attentat von Mark David Chapman erschossen. |
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.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
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.
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
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.
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.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
All you need is love.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
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?
Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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.
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.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. 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.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
