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He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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 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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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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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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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
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Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.
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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
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I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
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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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We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.
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To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
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When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.