One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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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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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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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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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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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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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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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.
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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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