I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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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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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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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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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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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