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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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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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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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 you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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