John Lennon (1940-1980) was an English songwriter and singer known for his musical talents, for being a peace activist, and for being a member and founder of the pop-rock group The Beatles. He was characterized by having a rebellious personality, something that he showed in his compositions, films, interviews and writing.
Lennon formed with Paul Mc Cartney one of the best musical couples in history. However, they disbanded The Beatles in 1970 and Lennon continued his solo career and collaborating with his wife Yoko Ono..
John Lennon is remembered in music history for his success; had up to 25 singles on the chart Billboard Hot 100, won the Grammy Award for Best Album of the Year in 1982 for Double fantasy and continued to receive honors after his death. Rolling Stone magazine named him the fifth best singer in history.
But he also stood out for his pacifism and for criticizing the war. In fact, in 1971 he moved to New York, criticized the Vietnam War, and the administration of President Richard Nixon tried to deport him from the country. He was shot and killed by a Beatles fan in 1980 near his Manhattan apartment.
In these phrases of John Lennon taken from his writings, interviews and songs, you will appreciate his ideas and way of thinking about peace, life in general, music, death or love. As you will see, he had an interesting, rebellious personality that did not accept the status quo and that led him to defend the values in which he believed.
We must know how to take advantage of our time and live in the present.
Sharing our dreams and desires with another person gives us more strength to carry them out.
What really matters in life are friends and experiences, not the number of years we have.
The voice of the people is the most powerful force, and if all the people ask for peace, surely this would be the case..
It is impossible to help all people, that is why these efforts must be made focused on those who need it most..
Never stop fighting for peace.
There are people who prefer to project into the future or live thinking about the past, before facing the reality they have in the present.
All our sufferings become less painful as time goes by.
Love is the source of life and what unites people.
The happiness that being in love gives us makes us have a calmer head and we can think better.
Not everything in life is working and producing, leisure time is also very important and you have to know how to make the most of it.
Peace is achieved through dialogue and understanding of others, not through violence.
All our problems can be solved with love, and this must be cared for and made stronger day by day..
Lennon uses irony in this sentence, since theoretically in reality there are only facts, but he tried to bring his dreams and fantasies to reality.
All people are equally special and important.
Artists are able to convey their feelings and emotions through their works.
We must not let other people's comments affect us, we must do what we really feel and enjoy doing.
We must always be present for the people we love, sharing moments and expressing our love for them.
Lennon believed that Jesus' message was good, but that it was distorted by his disciples.
Lennon didn't consider himself a guitar virtuoso, but he had what it took to make it sound good and captivate people..
Each person owns his life and is responsible for the decisions he makes. You always have to do what you want to do.
You never have to do or stop doing things to be in fashion, you have to do what you feel, always.
For Lennon, both education, the media and society in general repress demonstrations of love, but they spread violence..
We must know how to forgive people and not hold any kind of grudge. It is not healthy to live with resentments.
We must always look for the solution to our problems and not stop until we find it.
Lennon did not share in boasting entertainment figures who had lived a life of excess and died at a young age because of it. He valued people who took care of his health.
For Lennon, any kind of feeling we have that makes us feel good is happiness..
Fear motivates us to be alone and to separate ourselves from the people who love us. Instead, love makes us fully enjoy life.
If our main objective in life is to be happy, all the decisions we make will be to improve our quality of life and live it fully.
Ironically, Lennon refers to the fact that people who do not have empathy for other people, are not affected by the injustices that occur in the world every day.
You always have to think optimistically and find the solution for each problem.
If we really want it and do what is necessary to make it happen, conflicts can end immediately.
Loving is a very strong feeling that marks us forever, we never forget the people we have loved.
The most important thing of all is to love.
True friends don't abandon us when we speak honestly to them.
For Lennon, life continues after death, and this is simply a change of state.
If we all came together and tried to live in peace, it would surely be achieved.
The borders that countries create divide people. Without these, people would be more united.
We must always cultivate love in our lives.
We should never change our ideals to please someone or belong somewhere.
Lennon was tired of people identifying him solely because of his work with The Beatles and not recognizing his solo work..
According to Lennon, music should not have owners and that anyone can freely reproduce it.
Lennon believed in God, but not as a single entity as represented by traditional religions, but as something of which we are all part.
Lennon uses irony and humor to enhance the value of women by modifying a typical phrase that says "behind every great man there is a great woman".
We must always visualize our defects and try to correct them.
No person is the same as another, we all think, feel and do things in different ways and that is what identifies us and makes us unique.
The pressure and the demand that success entails, many times makes you not enjoy what you are doing.
Bad people are easy to spot, if we look closely.
Lennon did not identify with the decisions that politicians made and feared they would discredit him by calling him crazy for making his thoughts public..
Love and peace are two of the most important values that give meaning to life, they are not a matter of fashions.
Nothing lasts forever in life, nothing is eternal.
Lennon simply expressed what he felt in his songs, he did not try to impose any of his thoughts on other people.
Lennon was able to channel through surrealism everything he dreamed and imagined, and mix it with reality and then expand it in his works.
Lennon's compositions were not intended to impose beliefs on people, but to express their own considerations.
The Beatles are considered the most influential band in the history of music, and marked a before and after for genres such as Pop and Rock..
In times of great despair and danger, people communicate in a very primal way.
Lennon always fought for peace, and asked world leaders to stop hostilities and try to live in harmony.
For Lennon, religions only seek to take advantage of people.
We are all different, but we all deserve to be treated with the same respect.
The 1960s changed the way people viewed the world, it was a time when people lived with fewer restrictions and taboos than in previous years.
We all have a duality within us that at times makes us feel insecure and at other times makes us believe that we can do anything.
For Lennon, people live in constant pain and we try to alleviate this pain by taking refuge in a God that we create to feel better..
People who are very successful and are known throughout the world, sometimes cannot enjoy everything that happens to them because they live a very fast-paced life.
We should never allow ourselves to be offended by other people's comments, only we know who we really are.
As we acquire more knowledge and more experience, we realize that we always need to know much more than we already know.
Lennon comments very simply how one of the most influential music bands in the world was formed.
This is a fragment of a Beatles song in which, if put in context with the rest of the song, it is expressed that we do not have to be so ambitious in life and that we only need love to be happy.
Ending someone else's life is never the solution to anything.
Humans should ensure that all people can eat with dignity and not be so greedy.
Lennon lived with his aunt from the age of five, but had a good relationship with his mother, who died when he was 17 years old..
We always have to do what we really want to do, we must not try to please anyone but ourselves.
Many people when viewed and analyzed, do not like what they find. We must always accept who we are, with our defects and virtues.
Lennon did not have his father present during his childhood and youth, and he reflected it in one of his songs.
We must never burn stages in our life, we must enjoy childhood as children and youth as young people, because those times do not return..
Some people speak just for the sake of it, but they aren't really saying anything worthwhile..
Many times the facts of an event are enlarged, but in reality nothing important has happened.
Sometimes people live very fast trying to solve problems, but in reality everything they do does not help solve them.
There are people who oversize what they do, you never have to stop being humble.
The experiences and learnings that we obtain as we grow make us see our path more clearly.
You have to live to the fullest every moment of the day.
If we do not know how to take advantage of it, time passes quickly and without realizing it.
Children see their parents as a protective figure, and feel that being with them nothing can happen to them.
We should always be grateful for all the good that happens to us in our life.
Feeling the company of a person in whom we trust, makes us feel more secure and with more courage.
True love is one that accepts and loves the other person as they are, with their defects and virtues.
Self-love is the first thing we must develop as people.
Only people who know how to value life have the ability to make a better world for everyone.
No one has the power to completely deny something of which it is not known if it exists or not.
Ironic phrase used by Lennon at a benefit gala where he played with the Beatles, which refers to the fact that the most humble people are more effusive than the rich people.
We are always drawn to love.
It is always good to have friends who give us a hand when we need them.
If the objectives are not clear, it is impossible to know what to do.
We should not do things seeking the approval of other people, we should do them because we enjoy them and they fill us as people.
When we are inspired, everything becomes easier for us to do.
You always have to try to get what you want.
For Lennon, everything had already been done in the past and people just repeated the same thing.
Only we are capable of healing our own wounds.
We always remember the places where we have had good times, even if they no longer exist or have changed a lot.
Inspiration often seems to come from somewhere else, that it is not part of us.
Lennon was a tireless antiwar activist, and this was one of his campaigns.
Phrases about peace.
Wise phrases about life.
Rock song phrases.
Phrases about the war.
Spiritual phrases.
Phrases against violence.
Phrases about happiness.
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