But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere will be an answer. Let it be.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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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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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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