It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
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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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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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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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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 think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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