Music is everybody's possession.
Interpretation
Music belongs to everyone and is a universal form of expression.
John Lennon's quote emphasizes the idea that music is a shared cultural treasure that transcends boundaries and is accessible to all. It suggests that regardless of one's background or circumstances, music has the power to connect people and be a source of enjoyment and identity for everyone.
In practice
Using this quote at a music festival to celebrate the diverse audience.
When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
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.
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?
If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.
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