We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
PAUL MCCARTNEYTo 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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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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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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Think globally, act locally.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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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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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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One may not eat what has a face.
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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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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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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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