My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBy 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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I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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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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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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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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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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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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The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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