The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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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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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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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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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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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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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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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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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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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 don’t work at being ordinary.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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 realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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