Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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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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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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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 lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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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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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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