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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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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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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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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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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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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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