There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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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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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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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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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 [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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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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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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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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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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Lyricists play with words.
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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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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