Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBy 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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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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Lyricists play with words.
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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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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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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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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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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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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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Think globally, act locally.
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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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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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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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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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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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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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.
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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