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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYMy mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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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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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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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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