There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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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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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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 love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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