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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."

"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again."
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"At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod."

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."

"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."

"John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him."

"I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing."

"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 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."

"I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death."
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