I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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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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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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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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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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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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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