I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe 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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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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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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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 think the French girls are fabulous.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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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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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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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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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Lyricists play with words.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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