When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
PAUL MCCARTNEYLyricists play with words.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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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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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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