I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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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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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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
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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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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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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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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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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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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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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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