By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
PAUL MCCARTNEYHamburg 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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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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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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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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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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