You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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.
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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