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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWill you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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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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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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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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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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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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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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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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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
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