Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen 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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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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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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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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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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