I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWe got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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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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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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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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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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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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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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