When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’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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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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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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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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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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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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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss 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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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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