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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.

Paul McCartney

The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Adult Grow Up Interesting Kind Music Symbol
There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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Better Land Rain Spoil Way
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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Pool Resource Writing Yourself
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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Call Myself People Thinking Weird
We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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Fight Friendship Life Myself Time Work
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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Allow Artist Opinion People Yourself
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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Enough Herself Remember Weird
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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Call Experience Learning Resource See Writing Yourself
Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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Body Father Food Myself Notice
And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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Change Myself Point
If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Children Future Myself Study
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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Home Myself Play Retirement
My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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Ideas Message Myself Peace
The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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Greatness Musician
When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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Fellow Hell Job Yourself
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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Children Food Myself Yourself
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Love Man Myself Wife
There is good and bad in everyone.
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Bad Goodness One Liner
For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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Follow Myself Rain Sun
My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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Arrest Known Myself Prison Sing
But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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Color Important Sadness Writing Wrong
If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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Life Love Yourself
We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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Avoid Girl Job Music
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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Death Himself Kind Lose Mom Strange
Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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Love Myself Song Togetherness Trick Work
I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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Doubt Music Myself
When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
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Formal Ideas Improvisation Kind Music Myself Writing

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