There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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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 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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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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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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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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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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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