I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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 just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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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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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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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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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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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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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 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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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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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 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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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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