Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhy would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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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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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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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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I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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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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