Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
PAUL MCCARTNEYAt 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 doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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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 love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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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 just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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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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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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Think globally, act locally.
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