If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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My 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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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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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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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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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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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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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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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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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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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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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