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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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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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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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 feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
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Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...
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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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.
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I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
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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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My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.
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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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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
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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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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
Paul McCartney The Beatles