When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
PAUL MCCARTNEYMy 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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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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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 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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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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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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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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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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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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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 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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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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