Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
PAUL MCCARTNEYPainting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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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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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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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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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 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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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