We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI don’t work at being ordinary.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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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 don’t work at being ordinary.
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My 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 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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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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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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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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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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Lyricists play with words.
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