And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’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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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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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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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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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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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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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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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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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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