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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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Sadness Isn't Sadness. It's

Paul McCartney

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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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So, If I'm Cooking, I'll Be Steaming Vegetables, Making Some Nice Salad, That Kind Of Stuff.

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When Two Great Saints Meet, It's A Humbling Experience.

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It's Like If You're An Astronaut And You've Been To The Moon, What Do You Want To Do With The Rest Of Your Life?

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If I Were Dead, I Would Be The Last To Know.

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Criticism Didn't Really Stop Us And It Shouldn't Ever Stop Anyone, Because Critics Are Only The People Who Can't Get A Record Deal Themselves.

When We Were Kids Growing Up In Liverpool, All We Ever Wanted To Be Was Elvis Presley.

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Drugs Had Shown Me Little Bits Here And There-they Had Rolled Across The Carpet Once Or Twice, But I Had Been Able To Get Them Out Of My Mind.

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Fight For The Right To Live In Freedom!

I Would Have Liked The Beatles Never To Have Broken Up. I Wanted To Get Us Back On The Road Doing Small Places, Then Move Up To Our Previous Form And Then Go And Play. Just Make Music, And Whatever Else There Was Would Be Secondary.

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Take These Broken Wings And Learn To Fly.

...we Can Work It Out. Life Is Very Short, And There's No Time For Fussing And Fighting, My Friend.

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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.

There Is Good And Bad In Everyone.

I'm Only 49 Years Old. I'm Still In The Middle Of This Whole Thing. I Don't Feel Like It's Finished At All. I'm Still Planning To Write Better Songs.

When We Were Starting Off As Kids, Just The Idea Of Maybe Going To Do This As A Living Instead Of Getting What We Thought Was Going To Be A Boring Job, Was Exciting.

I Thought The Only Lonely Place Was On The Moon.

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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.

It's A Powerful Thing Hearing Your Friend On A Very Beautiful Song.

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There's Nothing Like The Eureka Moment Of Knocking Off A Song That Didn't Exist Before - I Won't Compare It To Sex, But It Lasts Longer.

In The End, The Love You Take Is Equal To The Love You Make.

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In Liverpool We'd Only Done One-hour Sessions. In Hamburg We Had To Play For Eight Hours. We Played Very Loud, Bang, Bang, All The Time. The Germans Loved It.

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Buy, Buy, Says The Sign In The Shop Window; Why, Why, Says The Junk In The Yard.

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