And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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 am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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One may not eat what has a face.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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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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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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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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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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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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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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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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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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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Lyricists play with words.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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