I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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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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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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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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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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 hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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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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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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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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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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