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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhat’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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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 definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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