My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
PAUL MCCARTNEYMy arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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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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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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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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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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