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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!

Paul McCartney

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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Life Moon Yourself
Lyricists play with words.
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Lyrics Play Word
But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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Color Important Sadness Writing Wrong
There is good and bad in everyone.
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Bad Goodness One Liner
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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Children Growth Identity
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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Call Myself People Thinking Weird
It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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Call Gift Time Yourself
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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Crime Discrimination Myself Support Wrong
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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Adventure Drink Whistle
Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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Amazing Couple Follow Music Myself Similar Thrill Time
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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End Kind Life Myself Time
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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Children Food Myself Yourself
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Love Man Myself Wife
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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Home Myself Play Retirement
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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Boredom Children Excitement Live Start Thinking
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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Music Myself Thinking
I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Drugs Realize
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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Ideas Life Magic Paint Process Reality Yourself
The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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Himself Weather Willow
Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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Feeling Greatness Myself Record Time
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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Choir Face Humanity Love Music Myself Optimistic Reality Team Work
I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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Himself Leadership Old Quick Smart
I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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Fact Management Myself
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Instrument Myself Practice Singer
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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Blow Hard Life Warning Wind Yourself
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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Goodness Limitation Love World
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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Important Kind Song Time Writing

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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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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