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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYPainting 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 is good and bad in everyone.
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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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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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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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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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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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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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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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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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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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