Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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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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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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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 can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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