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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYTo get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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 think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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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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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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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