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!
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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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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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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Lyricists play with words.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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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 can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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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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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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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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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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