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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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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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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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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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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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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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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Lyricists play with words.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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