My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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