Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), 1980
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John Lennon was a British musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the legendary band, The Beatles. With his distinctive voice and songwriting talent, Lennon's work with The Beatles revolutionized popular music and left an indelible mark on the industry. His solo career after the band's breakup also saw critical acclaim and enduring influence in the realm of rock music.
1940–1980·lived 40 years
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), 1980
All you need is love.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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?
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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 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. 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 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.God, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, 1970
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
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.Imagine, 1971
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.Quoted in John Lennon: In His Own Words - 2005
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.The Beatles, Anthology, 2000
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
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 live as one.The John Lennon Letters
That’s all 16 quotes by John Lennon.