Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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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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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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Think globally, act locally.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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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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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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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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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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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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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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It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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